The third of McClure's South African police novels featuring Afrikaner detective Kramer and Bantu Sergeant Zondi.

The Gooseberry Fool

Literature & Fiction

James McClure

World Literature

Harper&Row

The Steam Pig

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Penguin??Books

Lieutenant Kramer and Sergeant Zondi have their hands full. On the same day that an adult entertainer is found strangled to death in her dressing room, her pet python wrapped dead around her neck, beloved candy shop owner "Lucky" Siyayo is shot at his counter in a botched robbery. The detective duo quickly realize neither death is as simple as it appears. With two very different sets of crimes to solve, Kramer and Zondi set off on treks that take them all over town, from the poorer villages to the sleazy dressing rooms of con artists and pimps to the gorgeous step of the South African countryside. Only one thing is for sureneither will be taking his day off this week!

Snake

Mystery

Penguin

Six days into their search for a man who put a .32-caliber bullet into a South African antique dealer, neither Kramer of the Murder Squad nor his Bantu assistant, Zondi, has a single lead in the case. On the seventh day, Mrs. Digby-Smith opens the trunk of her car and discovers the hideous, tied-up corpse of her younger brother. Two violent crimes--seemingly unconnected. But as Kramer and Zondi pursue their investigation, startling connections turn up in the sordid underworld of Terkkersburg and in the secret, unresolved enmities of World War II.

The Blood of an Englishman

Spike Island

Criminal Law

Pan Books

[Read by Steven Crossley]  Naomi Stride was a wealthy woman, and her death has left several people richernone more so than her twenty-six-year-old son Theo, with whom she had long had bitter differences over money. She was also a controversial woman, a writer whose novels had been banned in South Africa. But was it for money, politics, or some other unknown reason that she was killed? And why was her naked corpse strewn with flowers and herbs? These are the questions South African Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Zulu partner, Mickey Zondi, must answer. But this task becomes much more difficult when Kramer is unexpectedly taken off the case. Ordered by his superiors to discreetly wrap up a fatal accident that could be embarrassing for the South African police, he is plunged into a second investigation, and (fighting to keep it free of political whitewash) he and Zondi find themselves moving inexorably toward a haunting and horrifying climax.

The Artful Egg (Coronet Books)

Coronet Books

The year is 1962. Young Lieutenant Tromp Kramer of the Trekkersburg Murder and Robbery Squad has been ordered up to Jafini, a small, dusty town in northern Zululand, to investigate the "hero's death" of the town's chief detective, Maaties Kritzinger--another Afrikaner maverick, and one with many secrets. Kramer finds himself increasingly identifying with the victim as the investigation proceeds.And then his path crosses that of Bantu Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi, who is trying to locate a multiple killer whose summary execution will quiet the spirits of his ancestors. Despite the racial differences, the two men sense a kinship ... one that might prove dangerous in rural South Africa in the year of Nelson Mandela's imprisonment.

The Song Dog

Faber&Faber

Gollancz

Collects noteworthy short stories of the past year by prominent mystery and suspense writers

The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1983

FREDERICK FORSYTH

RUTH RENDELL

Edward D. Hoch

Joyce Harrington

Patricia Moyes

Paul, Theroux

Patricia McGerr

Edward Hunsburger

Peter Godfrey

United States

Walker Co

<p>Illustrated account of the invasion of York, PA by the Confederacy in 1863, just prior to the Battle of Gettysburg</p>

East of Gettysburg: A Gray Shadow Crosses York County, Pa.

York Daily Record

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