Death of a Swagman Contributor(s): Upfield, Arthur W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1925706729 ISBN-13: 9781925706727 Publisher: ETT Imprint OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - International Crime & Mystery |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Inspector Bonaparte Mysteries |
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.67 lbs) 194 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A cypher that looked like a child's game of noughts-and-crosses; a strip of hessian bag; the rhythmic clanging sound of the turning windmill suddenly breaking the silence of the night; the minister who seemed out of place as a churchman: these were some of the more puzzling aspects of the case of the murdered swagman noticed by the keen eyes of Robert Burns, alias Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, alias "Bony". Our distinctive student of violence arrives incognito at Merino, in western New South Wales, and, as a first move, provokes the local sergeant to lock him up. The method in Bony's madness is that while serving a semi-detention sentence and being made to paint the police station, he wears the best of all disguises... Here again is a first-rate Upfield mystery, made warm by humour, by the background characters and his portrayal of the natural background scene. - The Age Upfield at his best. - Adelaide News |