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Murder on Safari by Elspeth Huxley
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 242 KB
Overview: Elspeth Joscelin Huxley was an author, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. Her husband was a cousin of Aldous Huxley.
Elspeth Huxley wrote the non-fiction classic, The Flame Trees of Thika, and assorted other books set in the land of her youth (she grew up on a coffee farm in British Kenya). Her knowledge of the African veldt and assorted wildlife is unquestioned and comes through in her vivid descriptions of the land and safari day-to-day.
Murder on Safari, first published in 1938, was the second novel featuring Canadian-born Superintendent Vachell of the Chania CID (Chania being a fictional African country, a thinly disguised Kenya).
Vachell is brought in to find out who has stolen the family jewels under most unusual circumstances. The family in question, being enormously wealthy and spoiled, is on safari and is out in the veldt, though not exactly roughing it – this is a truly extravagant holiday in fact with an enormous retinue of servants and vehicles to pamper their wealthy clients. Ruling the roost is Lady Lucy Barandale, American heir to a vast fortune who is so rich she not only wears Chanel No. 5 on safari but also carries her jewels with her in a portable safe. Traveling in the convoy is her husband Lord Barandale, who likes nothing better than to tinker with his new photographic equipment; his wayward daughter Cara from a previous marriage, who has had several affairs on the trip despite being accompanied by her fiancée, effete British nobleman Sir Gordon Catchpole. The party is led by celebrated white hunter extraordinaire Danny de Mare and aviatrix Chris Davis, who uses her plane to spot the game and report back to the group.
Vachell joins the safari masquerading as a hunter, in order to find out who managed to steal Lady Baradale’s jewels from her safe. Things get a lot more dramatic in the morning when what’s left of Lady Baradale’s body is found with a bullet through the head and surrounded by hungry vultures.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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https://drop.download/xlwsdvb2peby/Murder_on_Safari_-_Elspeth_Huxley.epub
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 242 KB
Overview: Elspeth Joscelin Huxley was an author, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. Her husband was a cousin of Aldous Huxley.
Elspeth Huxley wrote the non-fiction classic, The Flame Trees of Thika, and assorted other books set in the land of her youth (she grew up on a coffee farm in British Kenya). Her knowledge of the African veldt and assorted wildlife is unquestioned and comes through in her vivid descriptions of the land and safari day-to-day.
Murder on Safari, first published in 1938, was the second novel featuring Canadian-born Superintendent Vachell of the Chania CID (Chania being a fictional African country, a thinly disguised Kenya).
Vachell is brought in to find out who has stolen the family jewels under most unusual circumstances. The family in question, being enormously wealthy and spoiled, is on safari and is out in the veldt, though not exactly roughing it – this is a truly extravagant holiday in fact with an enormous retinue of servants and vehicles to pamper their wealthy clients. Ruling the roost is Lady Lucy Barandale, American heir to a vast fortune who is so rich she not only wears Chanel No. 5 on safari but also carries her jewels with her in a portable safe. Traveling in the convoy is her husband Lord Barandale, who likes nothing better than to tinker with his new photographic equipment; his wayward daughter Cara from a previous marriage, who has had several affairs on the trip despite being accompanied by her fiancée, effete British nobleman Sir Gordon Catchpole. The party is led by celebrated white hunter extraordinaire Danny de Mare and aviatrix Chris Davis, who uses her plane to spot the game and report back to the group.
Vachell joins the safari masquerading as a hunter, in order to find out who managed to steal Lady Baradale’s jewels from her safe. Things get a lot more dramatic in the morning when what’s left of Lady Baradale’s body is found with a bullet through the head and surrounded by hungry vultures.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Download Instructions:
(Closed Filehost) http://tusfiles.com/izepe23octsz
https://drop.download/xlwsdvb2peby/Murder_on_Safari_-_Elspeth_Huxley.epub
