Murder on Safari - Hardcover

Huxley, Elspeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670823198 ISBN 13: 9780670823192

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1989

Synopsis

In 1930s Kenya, Lady Baradale insists on bringing her princeless jewelry on safari with her the target of thieves and providing superintendent Vachell with another opportunity for investigation

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From Publishers Weekly:

Best known for The Flame Trees of Thika , Huxley also wrote three mysteries set in Africa, this one in 1938. The reissue shows its age, but there is excitement in events set afoot by wealthy colonizers at play in Kenya during the bad old days. "Great white hunter" Danny de Mare persuades CID Superintendent Vachell to join Lord and Lady Baradale's safari when someone steals the lady's jewels from the portable safe in her tent. Posing as an extra guide, Vachell observes members of the party closely, finding no clues although he has several suspects: a titled "pansy," Sir Gordon Catchpole, whose engagement to flighty Cara was arranged by the Lady Baradale, her stepmother; Cara's preferred lover, fired for his attentions to the girl. Even her father is under suspicion, but not lovely Chris Davis, attached to the safari as an aviator (a character clearly influenced by famous Beryl Markham). The narrative twists its way through murders, passed off as accidents, and other elongated incidents, to the rather vague resolution. The novel's main attractions are the vivid descriptions of the terrain and the author's prescient protest against the slaughter of wildlife for fun and profit.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0670823198
• ISBN 13: 9780670823192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208