title: The Poison Eaters: And Other Stories
author:  Holly Black 
description: Holly Black is the author of bestselling contemporary fantasy books for kids and teens. Some of her titles include The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), the Modern Faerie Tales series, the Curse Workers series,<i>Doll Bones</i>, <i>The Coldest Girl in Coldtown</i>, <i>The Darkest Part of the Forest</i>, the Magisterium series (with Cassandra Clare), and the Folk of the Air series. She has been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award, a finalist for an Eisner Award, and the recipient of both an Andre Norton Award and a Newbery Honor. She lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret door. Visit her at BlackHolly.com.
zlib_text: THE AFRICAN
  
  POISON MURDERS
  
  ELSPETH
  
  HUXLEY
  
  LflRGEPRINT
  
  MAJNSTREAM SERIES
  
  Oxford, England
  
  Santa Barbara, California
  
  FR1;Copyright Š 1939 Elspeth Huxley First published in Great Britain 1939 by
  Methuen Ltd. under the title Death of an Aryan First published in the U.S.A.
  1940 by Harper & Row Publishers Inc.
  
  Published in Large Print 1988 by Clio Press, 55 St. Thomas’ Street, Oxford 0X1
  1JG, by arrangement with
  
  Elspeth Huxley
  
  All rights reserved
  
  British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Huxley, Elspeth
  
  The African Poison murders.
  
  I. Title
  
  823’.912[F] PR6058.U8/
  
  -r.-,/A> i.ir, scarborough
  
  public library
  
  BOAR?
  
  ISBN 1850892091
  
  Phototypeset, printed and bound by Unwin Brothers Limited, Old Woking, Surrey.
  
  Cover designed by CGS Studios, Cheltenham.
  
  FR1;CHAPTER
  
  ONE
  
  All the way up the rough, bumpy road Vachell wondered why the woman at his
  side had been so insistent. He judged that she was not the sort of person who
  generally pressed her point. Her manner was curiously