A Clean Job of Murder

Judge Jansen van der Schyff had made a lot of enemies in his long career.

Upon retirement he decided to throw himself a birthday party.

And invite close friends and family.

The birthday lunch culminated in his murder, that took Chief Detective Swart

from pillar to post as he fumbled to make sense of the numerous clues.

The age-old question remained – who killed the judge?

But death is no welcome joke...

Especially for Solly ka Afrika, a former disgraced investigative journalist.

When he accepts an invitation to Judge Jansen's 80th birthday lunch party in

Johannesburg, he thought he was paying homage to an old friend.

The judge had the displeasure of hosting a right-wing brother whom he had

never seen or spoken to for 42 years... and a bitter, rich businessman whose

divorce case he had presided over.

As the guests congregate at the lunch table to sing for the judge,

something terrible happened....

Suddenly, the old judge slumped head-first into his birthday cake

– seriously dead!

Someone shouted, It's heart attack!

And Lucy, the judge's wife cried, Solly! Do something!

Solly looks at all the guests – a strange bunch that annoys him, and somehow

believes that the accident was staged. He finds himself in the midst of

an unwelcome death... or was it murder?

Solly ka Afrika is disappointed that his hosts had invited him to drive 300

kilometres not as a guest of honour, but as a guest for death.