Author: Matthew Head Year: 1945 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery
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ISBNs: 9781933397214 9781631941085 1933397217 1631941089 |
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World War II is raging, but in this dusty backwater of the Belgian Congo, the most pressing problem is finding a cold beer. That's the case at least for Hooper Talliaferro, a genial U.S. government flunkey sent to Africa on a vague errand related to the war effort. What he finds at the failing Congo-Ruizi plantation won't help the Allies much. Like colonialism itself, the owner is dying of a slow poison, and neither his bitter round-heeled wife nor the plantation manager, drowning in gin and mysterious guilt, can muster the energy to care. But along with Hooper arrives Dr. Mary Finney, a formidable missionary with both moral outrage and sleuthing skills to spare. Like an irresistible cross between Agatha Christie and Alexander McCall Smith (with a dash of Anton Chekhov), Devil in the Bush introduces Dr. Finney as a sort of blunt-spoken Yankee Miss Marple, with likeable, lightweight Hooper?the series narrator?standing by as her faithful scribe.
This book is part of the "Dr. Mary Finney" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Cabinda Affair" First published in 1981 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Congo Venus" First published in 1950 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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