The Congo Venus

by Matthew Head

Overview

The third mystery in Matthew Head's series, originally published in 1950, is set among the settlers and expats of tiny Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo, where a beautiful young woman dies under circumstances Dr. Mary Finney finds suspicious.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631941375
Publisher:	Felony & Mayhem Press
Publication date:	03/07/2018
Series:	Dr. Mary Finney , #3
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.56(w) x 8.12(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Matthew Head is the pseudonym of John Edwin Canaday (1907-1985), an art critic and writer. Canaday was a New York Times art critic for seventeen years and authored several monographs of visual art scholarship. Late in life he wrote restaurant reviews for the Times. Under the Matthew Head pen name he wrote seven mystery novels, three of which are set in the Congo and based on his experiences traveling there as a French translator in 1943. Canaday was born in Fort Scott, KS; his series sleuth, Dr. Mary Finney, is said to be from Fort Scott as well.