Ever get to the end of a book and contemplate flipping back to the first page and starting all over again? This is a book whose world I just want to continue living in but, like the ending of a book, is a world that just doesn't exist anymore. So much of the book, though it deals with people tryi...
Danny De Mare leads safari trips. He comes to Superintendent Vachell's office to persuade him to join the current safari in order to investigate the theft of Lady Baradale's jewels. Vachell agrees to go and travels back to the group with De Mare. The day after their arrival, Lady Baradale is d...
It all begins with gruesome pranks--decapitated pigeons, a mutilated dog. But soon tensions between German and English settlers in 1930s colonial Africa reach the breaking point, and a German farmer, suspected of Nazi sympathies, turns up dead.
So a leopard-hunt was swiftly organized. I rode with Robin and Tilly to the scene of the escape, where a lot of people had already assembled. The leopard had not dragged the trap away, as we had supposed. There it was, on the end of its chain, with a lot of fur and blood on it. Where it had been ...