British colonialism in Africa provided a rich field for detective fiction on the African scene, an inevitable result of the collisions of different races and cultures that raised questions of crime, punishment, justice, and injustice as filtered through dramatically different perceptions. With books such as Murder on Safari (1938), Elspeth Huxley provides early versions of colonial and native interaction, while Stuart Jackman and Brian Cleeve explore the nasty side of colonialism and apartheid in spy novels characterized by violence and brutality and dreadful scenes of the dehumanization of African natives. Employing an ancient Egyptian setting, Lynda Robinson makes her detective the ancient lord chief investigator for Pharaoh Tutankhamen, and P. C. Doherty makes his the chief judge in Thebes. Elizabeth Peters places her Victorian archaeological detective team in Egypt, and Michael Pearce follows the investigations of the British head of Cairo's criminal-investigation department. Karin McQuillan traces the adventures of...