The Keepers of the King's Peace
by Edgar Wallace
Publisher: Project Gutenberg 2008
Number of pages: 251
Description:
Unexpected things happen in the territories of the Belgian Congo where Commissioner Sanders keeps an uneasy peace, aided by his trusty assistant Lieutenant Hamilton and hindered, unintentionally, by the trouble-prone Bones. He must deal with 'ju-ju', 'religious-palava', lost vials of virulent disease ... and all the while Bosambo, the magnificent king of the Ochori, watches on.
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