Safari: A Stanley Hastings Mystery

Stanley Hastings on safari? I don''t think so. Neither did Stanley, until Alice''s small inheritance-coupled with scrimping on a few luxuries like food and rent-allowed them to book a group trip to Zambia. Now the New York PI is hiking with lions, canoeing with hippos, and having close encounters with elephants and giraffes.

It''s a dangerous safari. The leader is a reckless, gung-ho, great white hunter who delights in leaping from the jeep with a hearty Come on, gang, let''s see where this lion is going! And a series of bizarre accidents quickly dwindles the group''s numbers. Why was the guide''s young spotter foolish enough to walk under a sausage fruit tree . . . just as one of the huge sausage fruits fell? How did the leaves of a poisonous plant wind up in a tourist''s salad? Are these really accidents?

A stabbing tips the scale. It''s murder, and the only policeman in a hundred miles is a park ranger (whose only murder case was that of an ivory poacher shot dead in plain sight).

It''s up to Stanley to crack the case . . . if he can just avoid being eaten by a lion.

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