London: Putnam, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in a now vanished colonial world - set in Mozambique in East Africa, with a Viennese actress has come to recover her health, an English sisal planter, an Anglo-Portuguese elephant hunter and more, who become involved in the investigation of a Mau-Mau murder. First published as 'Der Koloss', Austria, 1959. Translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald. 423 pp. Dust jacket design by Oscar.