A review by michael5000
Black As He's Painted by Ngaio Marsh

4.0

Light British/Kiwi fiction about post-colonial Africa from the early 70s sounds like a recipe for cringing, but ol' Ms. Marsh does a credible job with her cast, including a jovial charismatic despot, a burnt-out retired foreign-office cog restored to life by the love of a good kittycat, and a clutch of heinous former expat riff-raff. Of course, it's possible that I just liked this one because I correctly guessed whodunit, or at least who dun some of it.