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  • By now Anna had met three of the team: DS Phil Markham, who was a big, square-chested man with iron-grey hair, an old pro; DC Pamela Meadows, who was pleasant enough, with bad acne; and DC Mario Paluzzo, a part-Italian, swarthy-faced officer who had hardly given Anna the time of day.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • By now Anna had met three of the team: DS Phil Markham, who was a big, square-chested man with iron-grey hair, an old pro; DC Pamela Meadows, who was pleasant enough, with bad acne; and DC Mario Paluzzo, a part-Italian, swarthy-faced officer who had hardly given Anna the time of day.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • By now Anna had met three of the team: DS Phil Markham, who was a big, square-chested man with iron-grey hair, an old pro; DC Pamela Meadows, who was pleasant enough, with bad acne; and DC Mario Paluzzo, a part-Italian, swarthy-faced officer who had hardly given Anna the time of day.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • The son of a Russianized gipsy from Izyumskoe, swarthy-faced and curly-headed, with big black eyes and a matted beard, he was never called among our Kotchuevko peasants by any name but “The Devil.”

    The Wife 2004

  • He glanced from the excited Feds to a swarthy-faced Arab man.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • He passed the swarthy-faced Arab who cleared Customs, carrying a briefcase, dabbing his sweaty face with a hankie.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • He, too, had just completed a very profitable stroke of business, though not a literary one, and as he was at last escorting to the door a swarthy-faced Jew with whom he had been sitting for the last two hours in his study, he shook hands with me affably, and in his soft pleasant bass inquired after my health.

    The Insulted and the Injured 2003

  • He glanced from the excited Feds to a swarthy-faced Arab man.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • He glanced from the excited Feds to a swarthy-faced Arab man.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • He passed the swarthy-faced Arab who cleared Customs, carrying a briefcase, dabbing his sweaty face with a hankie.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

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