African Alibi

#6 African Alibi Why is Marius Lems on the "City of Fremantle" when his own private yacht is anchored in Perth Harbour? Just a simply query, but to Sally Baxter, junior reporter on the the London Evening Cry, homeward bound from Australia, it suggests a mystery—and a story. Marius Lems, wealthy South African diamond man, hides away on an obscure passenger ship—practically sneaking into Durban. Sally keeps in the background, her nose twitching for a newsbreak, and her intuition brings her to a man named Basuto Pete, to the news staff on the Durban City Star—and to the mystery of the vanished green diamond known as the Star of Basutoland. Ostensibly, Sally is to meet her cousin, Fiona Baxter, in Pretoria and to fly back to London with her. But fate and a new story intervenes and her path crosses those of Otto Statler and the beautiful Anna Lems, leading finally to an exciting chase through the streets of Durban and the wild of Natal.