Author: Hayes, Harold T. P.,
Title: The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey.
Description: NY, Simon & Schustser, (1990). 2d ptg. VG in G DJ. DJ damp stained at top, chipped. In 1985 Fossey was found dead in her Rwandan cabin, her head split open with a machete. She had been doing research at the Moutain Gorilla Research Center in the African nation of Rwanda. Beginning with this unsolved murder, Hayes explores the strange, mysterious life of Fossey who abandoned her career as an occupational therapist in Kentucky to live in Africa among the last remaining mountain gorillas. There in her long battle to keep the gorillas alive against poachers, she created enemies.

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