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![]() ![]() She wrote a total of 30 books, including three mysteries, Murder at Government House, The African Poison Murders, and Murder on Safari. Murder at Government House by Elspeth HuxleyĮlspeth Huxley is best known for The Flame Trees of Thika, in which she recalls her childhood years growing up in Kenya. ![]() ![]() Their new novel, A Deadly Trade, is published in paperback by Headline. Research for their books has taken the friends tracking lions at night, fighting bush fires on the Savuti plains in northern Botswana, surviving a charging elephant and losing their navigation maps while flying over the Kalahari. Michael Stanley is the writing team of native Africans Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Reading these books will introduce you to areas with which you may be unfamiliar and perhaps give you new insights into some of the oldest cultures in the world." All but one relate to sub-Saharan Africa – the lands of colonies and colonial masters of newly democratic countries and post-independence struggles. The 10 books we've chosen all capture some aspect of African culture or location. Some are oldies, but others are contemporary, reflecting the surge of mystery writers interested in Africa. Some of the writers were born in Africa, others not. ![]() "Ever since we started writing detective stories set in Africa (A Carrion Death and A Deadly Trade), we've paid more attention to the many wonderful mysteries set on the continent. ![]()
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