London: Heinemann, 1959

8vo, pp. 246. Original black boards, lettered in yellow to spine. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photograhic portrait to rear panel. Ownership signature to front free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy in a very good dust jacket, rear panel a little marked, and with some unobtrusive ruching to lower edge.

First edition. 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