Death of a Swagman – Arthur W. Upfield (Paperback / Soft Cover)

? A cypher that looked like a childs 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 Bonys 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

Author: Arthur W. Upfield
Format: Paperback / Soft Cover
Pages: 184
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