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The Devil in the Bush (Dr. Mary Finney Mysteries) | 
 enlarge | Author: Matthew Head
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 162763
Media: Paperback
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1933397217
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781933397214
ASIN: 1933397217
Publication Date: December 15, 2005
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The first in the Dr. Mary Finney quartet World War II is raging, but in this dusty backwater of the Belgian Congo the most pressing problem is finding a cold beer. That s the case at least for Hooper Taliaferro, a genial U.S. government flunkey sent to Africa on a vague errand related to the war effort. What he finds at the failing Congo-Ruizi plantation won t help the Allies much. Like colonialism itself, the owner is dying of a slow poison, and neither his bitter, round-heeled wife nor the plantation s manager, drowning in booze and mysterious guilt, can muster the energy to care. But along with Hooper arrives Dr. Mary Finney, a formidable missionary with both moral outrage and sleuthing skills to spare. A cross between Chekhov and Agatha Christie, Devil in the Bush introduces Dr. Finney as a sort of blunt-spoken Yankee Miss Marple, with likeable, lightweight Hooper the series narrator standing by as her faithful scribe.
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