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The Bachelors
of Broken Hill

When two elderly bachelors are poisoned by cyanide in the silver city of Broken Hill, a strange woman was on the scene each time.

But now she has disappeared, leaving no trace.

Tracking her down in a town of twenty-eight thousand people is a job to tax even Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte's powers.

Bony needs the unorthodox assistance of burglar jimmy the Screwsman and a lightning-sketch artist, as well as all the detecteive and tracking skills at hios command, as he trails a killer no-one has really seen.

From the 1987 Eden edition