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The shape of snakes & acid row
Minette Walters
Detective and mystery storiesAlienation (Social psychology)FictionMobs
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The shape of snakes: "November 1978. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, rubbish piles in the streets - and in West London a black woman known as Mad Annie dies in a rain-soaked gutter. Her passing would have gone unmourned but for the young woman who finds her and who believes - apparently against reason - that she was murdered. For something passed between Annie and Mrs Ranelagh at the moment of death."--Back cover. Acid row: "Is the name of the beleaguered inhabitants give to the place they live. A no-…
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