the full excerpt from Doris Lessing's novel 'The Grass is Singing':

"The more one thinks about it, the more extraordinary the case becomes. Not the murder itself; but the way people felt about it, the way they pitied Dick Turner with a fine fierce indignation against Mary, as if she were something unpleasant and unclean, and it served her right to get murdered. But they did not ask questions."
'The Grass is Singing' is one of Doris Lessing's most famous novels. It was published in 1950 and takes place in Zimbabwe. The plot highlights the racial politics between blacks and whites, starting off with a murder of a white woman, Mary, that supposedly is committed by her black servant Moses for money.
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