Michael Stanley is the writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip.
Both are retired professors who have worked in academia and business.
Sears is a mathematician, specializing in geological remote sensing.
Trollip is an educational psychologist, specializing in the application
of computers to teaching and learning, and a pilot. They were both born
in South Africa.
They have been on a number of flying safaris to Botswana and Zimbabwe,
where they have had many adventures, including tracking lions at night,
fighting bush fires on the Savuti plains in northern Botswana, being
charged by an elephant, and having their plane's door pop open over the
Kalahari, scattering navigation maps over the desert.. These trips have
fed their love both for the bush and for Botswana.
A Carrion Death is their first novel.
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They found the body-what the
hyena didn't ravage- near a waterhole. Clues suggest the victim was
murdered and his identity hidden, a crime tailor-made for Detective
David Kubu Bengu.
The Second Death of Goodluck
Tinubu is set on the riverine forests of the Linyanti in northern
Botswana. Two guests are murdered at a bush camp and Detective
"Kubu" Bengu is called to investigate. The story has many ties to
the tragic Rhodesian war of 30 earlier.