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

Based on first-hand research and interviews with people of all ages, backgrounds, and ranks, this vivid portrait of the men and women of the San Diego police force interweaves the dramatic incidents of a cop's daily life with personal viewpoints, insights, and analysis

Cop World

Pantheon Books

The Sunday hangman

Tollie Erasmus, an unsavory bank robber on the run, is hung from the neck until dead. Unfortunately, the execution was administered without the benefit of a South African judge or jury. Somewhere there s a killer who knows far too much about the hangman s craft, and Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Bantu assistant, Mickey Zondi, must find him before his trail of death continues. "

The Sunday Hangman

Macmillan

The indomitable police detective Tromp and his faithful assistant Zondi investigate a series of mysterious hangings that has puzzled and revolted all of Trekkersburg

The Sunday Hangman (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

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