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The slippery morality of life in the British Protectorate of East Africa infuriates Vera Tolliver, a Scottish missionary's daughter and the bride of an English police officer whose job it is to enforce the law ... after he figures out what it is. The murder of a runaway slave only increases the complications, especially because a longtime friend of Vera's family is the likeliest suspect. The British don't belong in Africa. Their skins are too pale,...