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James McClure
Full Series List in Order
Tromp Kramer & Mickey Zondi
1 - The Steam Pig (1971)2 - The Caterpillar Cop (1972)
3 - The Gooseberry Fool (1974)
4 - Snake (1975)
5 - The Sunday Hangman (1977)
6 - The Blood of an Englishman (1980)
7 - The Artful Egg (1984)
8 - The Song Dog (Aug-1991)
Book List in Order: 13 titles
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The Steam Pig
- 1971
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A beautiful blonde has been murdered in apartheid-era South Africa. The method of killing was a bicycle spoke through the heart, a Bantu gangster signature. It's up to Lieutenant Kramer and Sergeant Zondi to figure out who killed her and why....
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The Caterpillar Cop
- 1972
- / Law Enforcement
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The author of The Steam Pig delivers a “powerful picture of South African society . . . The pace is fast, the solution ingenious” (The New York Times Book Review). When a twelve-year-old boy named Boetie is found strangled t...
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The Gooseberry Fool
- 1974
- / Law Enforcement
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A South African’s murder reveals surprising secrets in “one of the finest police series to begin in the 1970s” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine). Hugo Swart, faithful churchgoer and respected citizen, is found stabbed to death on the f...
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The Sunday Hangman
- 1977
- / Law Enforcement
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A detective team in apartheid South Africa suspect a vigilante is on the loose, in this novel from the Gold Dagger Award"winning historical mystery series. Tollie Erasmus, an unsavory bank robber on the run, is hung from the neck until dead....
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The Blood of an Englishman
- 1980
- / Law Enforcement
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Gold Dagger Award"winning series: Two puzzling murders in apartheid-era South Africa may be linked -- and have roots in the Second World War . . . For six days, Tromp Kramer of the Murder Squad and his Bantu assistant, Mickey ...
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The Artful Egg
- 1984
- / Law Enforcement
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Two detectives hunt for a woman’s killer in apartheid-era South Africa: “The pace is fast, the solution ingenious” (The New York Times Book Review). Named one of the 100 Best Crime Novels of the 20th Century by The Times (London) ...
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The Song Dog
- Aug-1991
- / Law Enforcement
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“Afrikaner Tromp Kramer and Bantu Sergeant Zondi [are] two detectives who are as far from stereotypes as any in the genre” (P. D. James, bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberly). The year is 1962. Young Lt. Tromp Kramer of the T...
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