When a well-regarded academic and writer in the field of Eugenics and so-called “genetic-purity” leaves his wife at home in the UK and accepts a speaking tour of South Africa and its university campuses, he can be forgiven for not suspecting that all he knows of both his life and himself is on a course that will see his beliefs and self-perception forever – and irrevocably – altered. But, if he can forgive himself his past delusions, he is about to discover that the physically and mentally powerful former ebony dominatrix bent on changing his view of himself and the world about him is not forgiving in the slightest! Rafael Menton is a UK-based Professor of English Literature with a retro passion for the early to mid-twentieth-century fiction of exotic and outré mystery, crime, suspense, horror & romance. Mr Menton’s wide-ranging literary tastes ranging from Doyle and Blackwood and on to Rohmer and Chandler, etc. As well as sometimes indulging in a more contemporary take of his own on the work of those masters.