He wants to adapt to the country and its culture, but he finds himself running up against many ominous and impenetrable points the strange expressions he notices on Slatter's and Sergeant Denham's faces as they look at the three people involved in the murder-Dick Turner, Moses, and Mary Turner (i.e. Tony Marston-an Englishman like Slatter, but much better-mannered gentler-is a more recent arrival in Southern Rhodesia and had been working for the Turners for three weeks at the time of the murder. Slatter-who was an enterprising grocer's assistant in London and since his arrival in Africa a highly successful but brutal farmer-arrives on the scene he inspects Moses, the expressionless suspect already arrested by native policemen, and takes Dick Turner, who has clearly been driven insane, into his car.
After Mary's body is discovered on the front veranda of her house by her farm workers, the workers come to neighboring farmer Charlie Slatter to apprise him of the incident he sends a messenger to alert police sergeant Denham and drives himself to the Turner farm. A newspaper article titled "Murder Mystery" begins the novel, reporting of the murder of Mary Turner at the farm at Ngesi, Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), where she lived with her husband, Richard "Dick" Turner their African houseboy has confessed to the crime.
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