Murder On Safari - Softcover

Hillary Waugh

2.73

22 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0373260296 ISBN 13: 9780373260294

Publisher: Worldwide Library, 1989

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The twenty tourists on the Bird Watchers Society's African safari looked forward to seeing rare and exotic bird life. They didn't expect to become sitting ducks themselves. An aging and hated company president drinks liqueur laced with cyanide. His arrogant son is found trampled among the hippos. His daughter-in-law is strangled in her designer clothes. A bookkeeper dines as the main course with hungry crocodiles. What mania for murder lies behind the innocent eyes of a bird watcher? Assigned to cover the safari, New York reporter James Addison knows he's got one killer of a story. He hopes he lives long enough to write it.

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When James Addison's editor assigns him to cover a bird-watching safari in Kenya game parks, he isn't too thrilled. But he goes reluctantly and stumbles into a series of murders. First a crusty tycoon is killed, then the tycoon's son, then others. The murders seem simultaneously connected (the victims all work in the same corporation) and disjointed. Meanwhile, it transpires, one of the members of the bird-watching expedition is the previously famous detective Jesse Dakar, now burnt-out and traveling under the pseudonym of Colonel Dagger. Addison and the Colonel team up to investigate the murders. They are joined hesitantly by Lumumba, a captain of the Kenyan police who despises all whites. Formulated on the classic whodunit model, this novel by veteran Waugh never really catches fire. The characters are cardboard-thin and unsympathetic. As a result, when some of them get murdered, no sense of danger ensues. The reader is cheated in another wayby being given too few clues to figure out the end until it arrives courtesy of deus ex machina.
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