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Arthur Upfield's first detective story introduced Bony, Detective Inspector
Napoleon Bonaparte, the suave, blue-eyed, black-haired, half aboriginal sleuth. Set
in the darling River bush of New South Wales, the tale starts with the discovery
of the body of King Henry, an aborigine from Western Australia. |
Publishing History | |
Australia
| | United Kingdom
1929 Hutchinson of London | | United States
1965 Doubleday - Crime Club | | By the time Bony
is called in, rain has wiped out any tracks - but has left clues for a man versed
in bush-craft. But for Bony, it is not so much the identification of the
killer - but the motive for the nineteen-year pursuit, then murder, of King Henry. Taken
from the 1965 Heineman edition |
