Author: Elspeth Huxley
Publisher: Popular Library 100
Year: 1946 Print: 1 Cover Price: $
Condition: Book Grades.  Very Good. Light wear
Genre: Fiction/Mystery
Pages: 222
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• The Setting: The story is set on a colonial farming community in East Africa (modern-day Kenya) right before World War II.
• The Conflict: Tensions rise between British settlers, such as Dennis and Janice West, and their malicious neighbor, Karl Munson, a German farmer with Nazi ties.
• The Incidents: A bitter feud escalates through escalating acts of vandalism and horrific animal mutilation on the farms.
• The Crimes: Karl Munson is soon found dead in what appears to be an accident, followed shortly by the discovery of an Englishman's burned body.
• The Investigation: Superintendent Chafing Vachell, a Canadian detective working in the East African bureaucracy, spearheads the case.
• The Twist: Vachell suspects the deaths were caused by untraceable, deadly African arrow poisons. He must navigate a tight web of motives, secret romances, and political Nazi underground factions to find the true killer.