Author
Tim Couzens
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Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Published
November 2005
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Tim Couzens
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Paperback / softback
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Published
November 2005
£35.02
Free UK Delivery
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Murder at Morija
Today's Price £35.02
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 Édouard 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.
Written and researched with extraordinary care, this is a brilliant piece of detective work, but it is also much more. It is the biography of a deeply committed man, and a history of the Christian mission he served in an isolated African country to whose people and language he devoted his life before it was brutally cut short in strange circumstances. And the story is a national and religious epic, enclosed in a classical tragedy tempered with the sardonic smile of comedy.
A compelling, groundbreaking study, Murder at Morija is the outcome of many years of travel and detailed inquiry by its author in pursuit of elusive solutions to complex mysteries.
Author
Tim Couzens
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Published
November 2005
Weight
677g
Page Count
474
Dimensions
158 x 229 x 30 mm
ISBN
9780813925295
ISBN-10
0813925290
Eden Code
4071718
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Author/Creator: Tim Couzens
ISBN: 9780813925295
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date: November 2005
Weight: 677g
Dimensions: 158 x 229 x 30 mm
Eden Code: 4071718