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

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

Couzens, Tim

Paperback

Series: Reconsiderations in Southern African History

Religious BiographiesAfrican HistoryGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0813925290
ISBN13: 9780813925295
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Nov 14 2005
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.22 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

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.

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