The Shape of Snakes Acid Row Author:Minette Walters The Shape of Snakes. November 1978. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, rubbish piles up in the streets -- and in West London a black woman known as Made Annie dies in a rain-soaked gutter. Her passing would have gone unmourned but for the young woman who finds her and who believes -- apparently against reason -- that she was mrudered.... more » For something passed between Annie and Mrs Ranelagh at the moment of death.« less