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Death of a Swagman
Contributor(s): Upfield, Arthur W. (Author)
ISBN: 1925706729     ISBN-13: 9781925706727
Publisher: ETT Imprint
OUR PRICE:   $18.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2019
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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
 
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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