New York: British Book Centre, 1962

8vo, pp. 255. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Second Australian edition, issued in the US by the British Book Centre. An Inspector Bonaparte title.

Indigenous Australian Inspector Napoleon 'Bony' Bonaparte was the hugely successful creation of Arthur Upfield [1890-1964], born in England but whose more than thirty crime novels are all set in the vast Australian interior. The novels were the basis for a popular 1970s television series.

HUBIN, p. 412