The Caterpillar Cop

by James McClure

Book Overview

When a twelve-year-old boy is found strangled to death with multiple stab wounds, his killer is assumed to be a pedophile. Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his sidekick, Bantu Detective Sergeant Mickey... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060128976
• ISBN13: 9780060128975
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the few best mystery writers ever

In this novel, the second published in his Trompie Kramer/Mickey Zondi series, Kramer and Zondi solve another murder case in Trekkersburg, South Africa. The novel's strength lies in the development of not only the two detectives, but also of the minor characters. The relationship between Kramer, a white South African and Zondi, his Zulu partner, which because of the political situation, neither man can openly acknowledge, is sensitively drawn. McClure ranks right up there with Colin Dexter.