The Artful Egg, James McClure
The Artful Egg, James McClure
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The Artful Egg

Author: James McClure

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/19/2013

Synopsis

Naomi Stride was a wealthy woman, and her death has left several people richer—none more so than her twenty-six-year-old son Theo, with whom she had long had bitter differences over money. She was also a controversial woman, a writer whose novels had been banned in South Africa. But was it for money, politics, or some other unknown reason that she was killed? And why was her naked corpse strewn with flowers and herbs? These are the questions South African Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Zulu partner, Mickey Zondi, must answer. But this task becomes much more difficult when Kramer is unexpectedly taken off the case. Ordered by his superiors to discreetly "wrap up" a fatal accident that could be embarrassing for the South African police, he is plunged into a second investigation, and fighting to keep it free of political whitewash, he and Zondi find themselves moving inexorably toward a haunting and horrifying climax.

About James McClure

James McClure (1939–2006) was a British author and journalist best known for his Kramer and Zondi mysteries set in South Africa.

About Steven Crossley

Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) on April 08, 2016

I've read all of it, and still haven't caught the title reference. As far as I know, there is no egg, artful or otherwise, in the novel, though there are plenty of artforms: drama, novel, sculpture, painting, dance...Much better than the preceding installment, it's a good, fast-paced yarn. A banned......more

Goodreads review by Ellen on November 16, 2015

The Artful Egg by James McClure was an accidental discovery. I have one of his non-fiction books on my shelf, but didn't know he wrote mysteries. The setting is South Africa in the 1980's. A woman writer has been murdered. Lt. Tromp Kramer, a white man, and his partner, Zulu officer Zondi must fight......more

Goodreads review by Zeb on March 15, 2014

Our intrepid officers of SAPD of Trekkersberg are back on the case, or here two cases. A woman who is famous as an author is found dead next to her pool. She was supposed to be in London to receive an award. The first problem for the Police is that all of her books had been banned by the Apartheid g......more

Goodreads review by John on July 10, 2021

Hard to follow. Potential is not realized. I wanted this book to be great. It had so much going for it. South Africa in the 1950s when apartheid was entrenched and truly nasty. A murder mystery. A wide range of characters through which it might be possible to explore South African life. And an autho......more

Goodreads review by Bob on September 03, 2020

I located this book by McClure via the list of Soho Crime Series writers and novels listed at the end of Magdalen Nabb's Monster of Florence. The Kramer and Zondi series is set in South Africa while apartheid was still politically operative. There are 9 books in this series and this was written in 1......more

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