Penny Black [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Susan Moody (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1985

Penny Wanawake, the first black female sleuth works in a James Bond-like fashion with her dashing male counterpart to capture murders and solve crime.

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A romp through the world of orchid growers . . . And the heroine is an exotic hothouse specimen, too: a tall, wealthy, extremely sexy black girl who makes a fine detective figure.
--Sunday Telegraph"

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

If you like your sleuths elegant, exotic, and exuberant, meet Britain's Penny Wanawake...

Funny, free-spirited Penny Wanawake, the knockout daughter of an African diplomat father and an aristocratic English mother, is dismayed to arrive in Big Sur from London and discover her vacation mate is missing. Penny's even more dismayed when Martha's body is found at LAX, clothed in a bright white orchid and multiple stab wounds. Who would have killed kind, silly Martha? A rival model beaten out on a photoshoot? Martha's racist Senator father, up for re-election and anxious to avoid scandal? Or could Martha somehow have gotten between two rival botanists, the narcissistic Frank Bernard and the engimatic Nicole Delage, both intent on winning the black orchid breeding sweepstakes?

In a turnabout of the James Bond model, suave, sexy, smart-mouthed Penny descends upon Washington, DC, where, with the inevitable dashing male counterpart, she pursues her quest for a remarkably blackhearted killer... --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 464 pages
• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books (December 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0708913911
• ISBN-13: 978-0708913918
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,095,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)