London: Heinemann, 1956

8vo, pp. 226. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear panel. Offsetting to endpapers, but a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with just a little loss to corners and the lightest of wear to spine ends.

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