Murder at Morija: Faith, Mystery, and Tragedy on an African Mission

by Tim Couzens

Book Overview

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 douard 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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813925290
• ISBN13: 9780813925295
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"