The Ngoni Princess
(2026)(The sixth book in the Alaric von Trelow Mystery series)
A novel by Jason Collings
A post-war historical mystery set in colonial Tanganyika, November 1919.
Manfred von Trelow sailed for German East Africa in 1913 seeking a new life for himself, his wife, and his newborn daughter, beyond the constraints and responsibilities of Imperial Germany. Then the war came and he disappeared.
Six years later, his brother, Alaric von Trelow, former intelligence officer turned private enquiry agent, arrives in Dar-es-Salaam to find him, bringing with him Manfred's abandoned wife Odila and his own faithful valet Max. They find a colony still settling uneasily under new British masters exercising their inherited authority, and a city of palm-shaded verandas and white-painted houses beyond which something altogether more predatory is moving. Manfred, it transpires, has not simply vanished. He is hiding, not only himself, but a secret.
Their search will take them from the heat of the coast into the great inland country of the lakes and the rivers, through plains, jungles and highlands, and into the company of dangerous men, drawn from three continents, who have been waiting a long time to be led to Manfred. For by finding Manfred von Trelow, they will find the mysterious Ngoni Princess, and she holds a secret they are willing to kill for.
The Ngoni Princess, is the latest of the Alaric von Trelow Mysteries, a series of historical detective novels following von Trelow through the troubled years of the early Weimar Republic and out into the wider world of the 1920s.
Genre: Historical
Manfred von Trelow sailed for German East Africa in 1913 seeking a new life for himself, his wife, and his newborn daughter, beyond the constraints and responsibilities of Imperial Germany. Then the war came and he disappeared.
Six years later, his brother, Alaric von Trelow, former intelligence officer turned private enquiry agent, arrives in Dar-es-Salaam to find him, bringing with him Manfred's abandoned wife Odila and his own faithful valet Max. They find a colony still settling uneasily under new British masters exercising their inherited authority, and a city of palm-shaded verandas and white-painted houses beyond which something altogether more predatory is moving. Manfred, it transpires, has not simply vanished. He is hiding, not only himself, but a secret.
Their search will take them from the heat of the coast into the great inland country of the lakes and the rivers, through plains, jungles and highlands, and into the company of dangerous men, drawn from three continents, who have been waiting a long time to be led to Manfred. For by finding Manfred von Trelow, they will find the mysterious Ngoni Princess, and she holds a secret they are willing to kill for.
The Ngoni Princess, is the latest of the Alaric von Trelow Mysteries, a series of historical detective novels following von Trelow through the troubled years of the early Weimar Republic and out into the wider world of the 1920s.
Genre: Historical
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