Perhaps best known for THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA and OUT IN THE MIDDAY SUN, Elspeth Huxley is a versatile author whose range includes travel, history and suspense.

THE AFRICAN POISON MURDERS is the story of a double murder set admist the sights and sounds of the vast land of jungles, mountains and wild beasts that Huxley knows so well. Superintendent Vachall, a Canadian national set adrift in the East African bureaucracy, follows a dead-end trail to a treacherous Nazi bund and a deadly African arrow poison.