Bony is the sort of detective who enjoys nothing better
on a holiday than a little formal investigation.
When he agrees to help a colleague in the matter of
the disappearance of george Loftus, a farmer whose car
was found abandoned near the world's longest fence,
in the wheat country of western Australia, he cannot
immediately find evidence of the murder he suspects.
Loftus's wife seems concerned about him, but his handsome
hired man is an enigma.
It is not until Bony becomes absorbed in the second
mystery of Mr. jelly, an amateur criminologist who himself
often disappears on secret business, that he finds the
key to the strange goings-on in this seemingly ordinary
farming community.
Taken from the 1998 Scribner paperback edition.
Publishing History
Australia
1937 Angus and Robertson, Sydney
United Kingdom
1937 Hamish Hamilton, London
United States - Murder Down Under
1943 Doubleday Crime Club
