The Congo Venus (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Matthew Head | knygos.lt

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It doesn't take a lot to be the belle of the expat community in Leopoldville, a flyspeck in the Belgian A pulse and a pair of pumps will do the trick. Liliane Morelli brought rather more than that to the party, but it didn't She's still dead of what the doctor calls blackwater fever though any idiot could tell you that mosquitoes were not to blame. One way or another, Liliane was just a little too fatale for her own good. Enter Dr. Mary Finney, the Miss Marple of the missionary brigade. She doesn't do a lot of praying - or a lot of doctoring, come to that - but her sleuthing skills are top-notch. Peering and poking, sticking her sunburned nose where it doesn't belong, she soon discovers the sad Lots of people wanted Liliane. But nobody seems to have liked her much. Originally published in 1950.