Blue Murder at Kudu: A Very British Murder Mystery Novel set in Africa (Crime Fiction Bestsellers) Review
Blue Murder at Kudu: A Very British Murder Mystery Novel set in Africa (Crime Fiction Bestsellers) Overview
It has long been postulated that isolation is a fertile breeding ground for madness, and Kudu - a remote town deep in 1930's British Central Africa - is perhaps as good an evidence of this theory as you're ever likely to encounter. The locust-ridden outpost is home to the H.Q of the British District Commissioner - widely regarded as a raving lunatic - and half a dozen colonial officers who detest him.When a freak show arrives in town, the local tribes are convinced that the prize exhibit, "Lion Man", is the finest achievement of a powerful witchdoctor who predicted he would one day turn an animal into a man. The witchdoctor, on his way to Gaol for an unrelated offence, escapes from custody, and the resident magistrate who sentenced him is found dead on the police parade ground. No weapon, no footprints.
Whilst the District Commissioner - convinced that the magistrate's death is part of a plot by the Boer government in the South to invade the territory - puts Kudu on a war footing, the chief of police discovers that the magistrate had a rather racy private life.
Meanwhile, Bubsy Flaherty, the barmaid at Hickory’s Bar and Belle of Kudu becomes infatuated with the Lion Man; a development with (un?)predictably disastrous consequences!
Blue Murder at Kudu: A Very British Murder Mystery Novel set in Africa (Crime Fiction Bestsellers) Specifications
It has long been postulated that isolation is a fertile breeding ground for madness, and Kudu - a remote town deep in 1930's British Central Africa - is perhaps as good an evidence of this theory as you're ever likely to encounter. The locust-ridden outpost is home to the H.Q of the British District Commissioner - widely regarded as a raving lunatic - and half a dozen colonial officers who detest him.When a freak show arrives in town, the local tribes are convinced that the prize exhibit, "Lion Man", is the finest achievement of a powerful witchdoctor who predicted he would one day turn an animal into a man. The witchdoctor, on his way to Gaol for an unrelated offence, escapes from custody, and the resident magistrate who sentenced him is found dead on the police parade ground. No weapon, no footprints.
Whilst the District Commissioner - convinced that the magistrate's death is part of a plot by the Boer government in the South to invade the territory - puts Kudu on a war footing, the chief of police discovers that the magistrate had a rather racy private life.
Meanwhile, Bubsy Flaherty, the barmaid at Hickory’s Bar and Belle of Kudu becomes infatuated with the Lion Man; a development with (un?)predictably disastrous consequences!
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