Sinister stones ... On a lonely dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep is found. In it is Constable Stenhouse - shot dead. His aboriginal tracker has disappeared and clues are thin on the ground. Enter Inspector Bonaparte, who soon realises that he is not alone in his search for the criminal. The local Aboriginal people are seeking vengeance too ...
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Sinister stones ... On a lonely dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep is found. In it is Constable Stenhouse - shot dead. His aboriginal tracker has disappeared and clues are thin on the ground. Enter Inspector Bonaparte, who soon realises that he is not alone in his search for the criminal. The local Aboriginal people are seeking vengeance too ...
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Good. 8vo. 186pp. Spine creased with short tear at rear bottom of spine, page egdes/margins toned. One of Upfield's famous Inspector Bonaparte mysteries. The first aboriginal detective in print.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book Reprinted 1977, (Originally published in 1955). Fine in near fine dust jacket, clipped but with price sticker intact £ 4.50, light wear. Inspector Napolian Bonaparte. the 19th in Arthur Upfield's Bony series. The story starts with the discovery by a long-distance truck driver of the body of Constable Stenhouse in his jeep on the road to Agar's Lagoon. Stenhouse, a competent policeman but not a well-liked man, has been shot, and his native tracker is missing. At first, it looks like, the tracker, Jackie Musgrove, has shot his Constable and cleared out with his swag and rifle. But the local blacks are making smoke signals and gathering purposefully. Bony happens to be in the town of Agar's Lagoon due to engine trouble in his flight home from Broome, and as the case gets more interesting, he relishes being asked to help with the investigation.
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For fans of Inspector Bonaparte and the detective novels of Arthur Upfield, this is a "must read". The excellent and gripping narrative is,as usual, enhanced by evocative descriptions of landscape, and characters.
