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When a doyenne of English society reveals she has killed her black cook - who was also her lover - Kommandant van Heerden, the new police chief, does all within his misguided power to stop the news leaking out, and to thwart a fashionable trend to taking black lovers.
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"The funniest writer now working in the English language . . . His humour has bite and an angry underside that puts him in the great tradition of English satirists" (Stephen King)
"Riotous Assembly is a masterpiece of black farce, and makes me suppose that there is a true comic genius here" (Auberon Waugh Spectator)
"Savagely hilarious" (Sunday Mirror)
"Riotous Assembly has done to the South African police what Catch-22 did to the American Air Force" (Piers Brendon Books & Bookmen)
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"Riotous Assembly is a masterpiece of black farce, and makes me suppose that there is a true comic genius here" (Auberon Waugh Spectator)
"Savagely hilarious" (Sunday Mirror)
"Riotous Assembly has done to the South African police what Catch-22 did to the American Air Force" (Piers Brendon Books & Bookmen)
A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0001050745
- ISBN 13 9780001050747
- BindingAudio Cassette
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