Murder at Morija by Tim Couzens

ISBN: 9780958446822

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House South Africa, January 1, 2003

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"Just before Christmas in 1920, six people sat down to a meal at Morija, headquarters of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in Basutoland (Lesotho). All six were taken violently ill, and one of them died. They had been poisoned. The dead man was Edouard Jacottet, an eminent scholar and missionary. There was no trial, and subsequently no one was ever convicted of the murder." Who killed Jacottet? Drawing on the great tradition of the "locked room" detective story, Tim Couzens sets out, eighty years after the event, to solve the crime. Why was Jacottet killed? The answer lies buried deep in the past and is revealed here - for the first time - in a tale of heroism and courage, of sacrifice, deception, betrayal, and faith.