Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 116, Nos. 3 & 4. Whole Nos. 709 & 710, September/October 2000

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Yorkshire-born novelist and short story writer Marjorie Eccles has a new book coming out in the U.S. next month. The Superintendent’s Daughter (St. Martin’s Press) features Ms. Eccles’s long-running series character, Police Superintendent Gil Mayo, the hero of more than a dozen previous novels. Her new short story for EQMM is a nonseries work set in 1899, during the Boer War.

They would soon be reduced to eating the horses. The idea was anathema to any I Britisher. They would do if it was a question of survival, but thank God it hadn’t come to that, not yet.

The small township in the middle of nowhere lay sweltering on the unending, sun-scorched expanse of the African veldt. A hitherto pleasant, orderly, and uneventful place, now seething with fifteen hundred defending troops, surrounded by the enemy, Mafeking had suddenly found itself turned into a garrison by virtue of its strategic position on the borderland railway.

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