Hudson Run Press

Publishers since 1999

Lake Luzerne, New York 12846

 

Copyright © 2015 by Susan S. Hunter

 

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

 

Cover Design by Sharon Bolton

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hunter, Susan S.

Elephant Murders | Starbuck / Susan Hunter

 

eISBN 978-0-9702932-1-3

 

1. Elephant Poaching

2. International Environmental Crime

3. Female Detective

4. Kafue National Park (Zambia)

 

 

My Thanks

To many elephant researchers and conservationists, who will recognize the fruits of their tireless work in this text but bear no responsibility for how I have interpreted their work.

To the folks at Mukambi, my Zambian friends, the people of Zambia, and my dear husband Arlin Greene. I first fell in love with Zambia in 1990, and have lived and worked there many times since. Gifted with more good leaders than bad, it maintains its dignity and pride in the middle of a continent ridden by conflict and chaos. I only hope that I have represented it fairly, and continue to do so through the other books in this series.

To my editor, Joyce Devine. To my readers: Margaret Bellucci, Kathy Cheney, Joyce Miller, Jim McCauley, Linda Mason, Callie and Randy Curtis, and Sharon Bolton, who read early versions of this book and contributed mightily to making it better. Sharon, a nationally recognized artist and graphic designer, designed the covers for all three volumes in this series. None of these lovely people are responsible for anything that survived the editing process.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locates is entire coincidental.