The Sunday Hangman, James McClure
The Sunday Hangman, James McClure
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The Sunday Hangman

Author: James McClure

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 8 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2012

Synopsis

Tollie Erasmus, an unsavory bank robber on the run, is hung from the neck until dead. Unfortunately, the execution was administered without the benefit of a South African judge or jury. Somewhere there's a killer who knows far too much about the hangman's craft, and Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Bantu assistant, Mickey Zondi, must find him before his trail of death continues.

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 has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and was nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. He has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)

Grittier than the previous "Kramer and Zondi" novels, this one grabbed me straight out of the gate and didn't let go. I had to stop reading in the last 20 pages because it was late and I knew if I finished it I wouldn't be able to sleep--not because it's "scary" but because McClure builds the tensio......more

Goodreads review by Mysterytribune

Released by Soho Crime in early February, The Sunday Hangman is probably one of the best police procedurals published so far in 2012. The author, James McClure (1939 - 2006), was a British author and journalist best known for his Kramer and Zondi mysteries set in South Africa. The Sunday Hangman is......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen

Bank robber Tollie Erasmus has been found hanging from a tree with a Bible in his hand. What looks at first like a suicide turns out to be a killing performed in the same manner as that used by the South African criminal justice system to execute criminals. It soon becomes clear that the murder of E......more

Goodreads review by Peter

James McClure's detective books are set in Pietermaritzburg in Apartheid South Africa, featuring two policemen, Kramer and Zondi. The plots are OK, and the writing not bad, what is excellent, though, is how they capture the zeitgeist. The relationship between the white Afrikaans Kramer, and the black......more

Quotes

“Superior.” Washington Post Book World

“Crossley…enlivens the narrative with strong dialect work…This powerful procedural provides a startling thirty-five-year-old snapshot of the strange world of apartheid.” AudioFile

“He is that rarity—a sensitive writer who can carry his point without forcing.” New York Times Book Review, praise for the author

“One of the finest police series to begin in the 1970s.” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, praise for the series

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