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...AFRICAN POISON MURDERS -Elspeth Huxley*- Harper ($2). This one has everything, including literary quality. Herr Munson, a nauseous Nazi farmer on the veldt, is paid off in a native African poison. Inspector Vachell can't understand the mutilated ducks and dogs, and the reader gets the creeps...
...Bubbling Elspeth Huxley, photographer, big-game hunter, agriculturist and mystery writer (latest: The African Poison Murders), cousin-by-marriage of Aldous and Julian, told a Manhattan reporter how she had her personal devils exorcised by black tribal quacks in Kenya Colony, British East Africa: "There was a lot of mumbo-jumbo with a goat, for which I paid three shillings. The witch doctor chalked up my face and between my toes. I did as I was told until I was supposed to lick the intestines of a goat. I hired a substitute for a shilling, being assured that this wouldn...
...STRANGERS - Elspeth Huxley -Harper...
Dull indeed is the author who cannot get some good laughs, provoke an occasional shudder, excite a few mildly erotic curiosities, inspire a self-congratulatory mood, in a book about African tribesmen. No dullard, Author Elspeth Huxley, a cousin-by-marriage of Novelist Aldous, has packed into Red Strangers well-above-average Africana for the money...
MURDER ON SAFARI-Elspeth Huxley- Harper ($2). A jewel theft and two murders on a big-game hunting party in Africa. Addicts may spot the killer, but will probably not be able to guess his method...