A hated Drunk has disappeared after beating his wife to death.
He may
or may not have been killed.
As the Darling River rises to flood level, Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the
half-aborigine detective, goes to work to find a body, if there is one, and a
murderer, if there's a body.
From the 1966 Pan edition
Publishing History
Australia
United
Kingdom 1963 Heinemann, London
United
States - The Body at Madman's Bend 1963 Doubleday Crime Club
