Harte Banning, a much-decorated American soldier, returns from WWII to his home in Svart Nwari, a sleepy town on the coast of French West Africa. Fresh out of an Army hospital, Harte has been summoned home because Jacqueline, his gorgeous wife, had been found dead some days before. "Suicide," said chess-playing Colonel Andr Limoges, commandant of the gendarmes. "Suicide, hell," said Harte. So Harte turns tenacious bloodhound and raging bull in a...