Murder at Cape Three Points
- Nalem
- Sep 24, 2020
- 3 min read
African Fiction and Mystery Series (By African Writer Standards)
Murder at Cape Three Points
By: Kwei Quartey.
PS: This book is the reason why I don’t have a book for the month of June. When my friends and I decided to read this book for May, I didn’t anticipate life taking all my time. I thought it was a quick read, just as Hundred Wells of Salaga (HWOS), which is currently my favourite book of the year.
I read the book in two months. I was not uninterested, probably very swamped with life. It really was not a big book. Lack of interest really makes it hard to read.
The Cape Three Points and why this book?
For most of you who were attentive in your various Geography or Social Studies classes, you will recall that the Cape Three Points is the southernmost tip of Ghana. If you don’t remember how the map looks like, I intend to leave one below. (I sound like a teacher right now- better still, google it).
The Cape Three Points has the sea kissing its feet. It is known for the oil (Offshore Cape three points projects), and for obvious reasons, it is a fishing village like every other town in Ghana with access to the Atlantic Ocean.
Fishing Villages have been known in the past to have the weirdest stories. You may be familiar already with a few Ghost, Mermaids and gods, Marine Spirits, Spiritual Marriages, Superstitions and Crimes (just like any other place in the world). Every story should be taken with a pinch of salt (pun intended).
The title of the book caught my interest because of the most gruesome murder case that I read in third- year law school about a murder in a fishing village. For the Law School folks, I am talking about "Azametsi v The Republic".
General Review
Coincidentally, or maybe not, this story is centred around the ritualistic murder of a prominent couple. The local police were not making a head way with the investigation. Sapphire, the niece of the couple is unhappy as she needs closure. The bodies looked as though they were conveying a message.
Det. Inspector Darko Dawson sends a team to investigate and starts to make head way. Any other information I tell you about this book may be a spoiler.
I noticed a few weeks into the book that the author has a collection of books following Inspector Darko Dawson. This book was the third of the pack. I don’t intend to read the rest of the books as I am not particularly interested in mystery. I wanted to try it, but I think I like more drama (Drama Queen).
Since I am out here, let me tell you about an under exploited tourist site once again. This time, it is the place the book is named after.
Facts you didn’t know about the Real Cape Three Points
It is at the centre of the earth. (allegedly)
It is an under exploited fishing village.
The Escape three points is the resort closest and most convenient for tourist. It is not very luxurious. It is powered by Solar electricity.
It is a hustle to get to the tourist site. It takes a long time. The drive to Cape Three Points takes visitors through several rural communities, oil palm plantations and an extensive rubber plantation which was originally planted by Ghana’s first president, some fifty years ago. You will view at first-hand how fresh rubber is collected from the rubber trees, before being part-processed in Ghana and shipped to Europe. Between the views of crop farms and rubber plantations, you might have a bit of luck and run into a group of monkeys. If not, you will still be able to see a wide variety of trees, birds and butterflies that inhabit this area.
Climb the solar-powered 1925 lighthouse and enjoy breathtaking panoramic views, amid commentary supplied by the affable lighthouse caretaker.
The irony is that, the sea is being polluted by rubber and rubber production is made close to the sea.
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