James McClure: The Sunday Hangman (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
Book five in the Kramer and Zondi series set in South Africa
Tollie Erasmus, an unsavory bank robber on the run, is hung from the neck until dead. Unfortunately, execution was administered without the benefi t of South African judge or jury. Somewhere there's a killer who knows far too much about the hangman's craft, and Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Bantu assistant Mickey Zondi must fi nd him before his trail of death continues.

"From the beginning, the series has been characterized by an insight into South African culture.... He has given us a series of exotic procedurals marked by fi ne writing and careful plotting." -- The New York Times

James McClure: The Sunday Hangman. A Kramer and Zondi Investigation set in South Africa. Soho Press, ISBN: 9781616951054 (February, 2012), 217 p., $14.00, eBook $9.99.

James McClure: The Sunday Hangman (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
Tollie Erasmus, an unsavory bank robber on the run, is hung from the neck until dead. Unfortunately, his execution was administered without benefit of South African judge or jury. Somewhere there's a killer who knows far too much about the hangman's craft, and Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Bantu assistant Mickey Zondi must find him before his trail of death continues.

"Each year since 1972, when he came forth with The Steam Pig, one of McClure's novels about Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and Sergeant Mickey Zondi has been published. From the beginning, the series has been characterized by an insight into South African cul-ture.... He has given us a series of exotic procedurals marked by fine writing and careful plotting." - New York Times

"Here's a grand specimen of the able McClure's novelistic skills." - San Francisco Chronicle

"The Sunday Hangman is among McClure's best, which is a high recommendation indeed when you consider his...superior suspense novels." - Jean M. White, Book World

"A crackling good yarn." - Baltimore Sun

James McClure: The Sunday Hangman. New York: Pantheon Crime, 1984 (?), ISBN: 0394729927, 246 p., $2.95.

James McClure: The Sunday Hangman (UK 1981)

From the Publisher:
'GRIPS LIKE A NOOSE' - Matthew Coady in the Guardian
'McClure takes us back to his detective of old, Lieutenant Tramp Kramer, complete with the ever-delightful Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi, for a curious case in which an expert amateur hangman busily adds to regular Tuesday and Thursday hangings by the half-dozen. Plenty of clever deduction here and good tense moments' - H.R.F. Keating in The Times

James McClure: The Sunday Hangman. Featuring Kramer & Zondi. Penguin Books, ISBN: 0140047689 (August, 1981), 254 p., £1.50.

James McClure: The Sunday Hangman (USA 1979)

From the Publisher:
Murder or Suicide? It didn't matter
whether the victim did it to himself or had it done for him. The execution was well-deserved, but he was not the only hanging victim. His death was part of a series administered with neither judge nor jury. It was a job for the South African cop, Lieut. Kramer of the Trekkersburg Murder and Robbery Squad and his devoted assistant Mickey. They dis cover that somewhere there is an amateur who knows too much about the hangman's craft, and seems to enjoy putting his knowledge into prac-tice. They follow his ghoulish trail to the end of a noose he prepares for an associate of Kramer and Mickey.

"Lots of morbidly fascinating gallows lore. Grips like the noose!" -- THE GUARDIAN

James McClure: The Sunday Hangman. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380435705 (June, 1979), 246 p., $2.50.