James McClure

In this crime story a body of a woman is sent to the police surgeon by mistake. He discovers that she died not from cardiac weakness, but from an almost imperceptible wound made by a bicycle spoke - a method of murder peculiar to certain Bantu gangsters. James McClure won the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for "The Steam Pig" and later won the Silver Dagger for one of his other novels. He h...

Naomi Stride was a wealthy woman, and her death has left several people richer none more so than her twenty-six-year-old son Theo, with whom she had long had bitter differences over money. She was also a controversial woman, a writer whose novels had been banned in South Africa. But was it for money, politics, or some other unknown reason that she was killed? And why was her naked corpse strewn wi...

Based in South Africa, this crime thriller is about innocent victims murdered under the guise of capital punishment. "The Steam Pig", published in 1971, was his first book and won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. He later won the Silver Dagger for one of his eight other novels.