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      Death of a Swagman

      by Arthur W. Upfield
      Published
      Jan 1946
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      Law Enforcement Law Enforcement
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      224
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      An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Book 12

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      A cypher that looked like a child's game of noughts-and-crosses; a strip of hessian bag; the rhythmic clanging sound of the turning windmill suddenly breaking the silence of the night; the minister who seemed out of place as a churchman: these were some of the more puzzling aspects of the case of the murdered swagman noticed by the keen eyes of Robert Burns, alias Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, alias "Bony".

       

      Our distinctive student of violence arrives incognito at Merino, in western New South Wales, and, as a first move, provokes the local sergeant to lock him up. The method in Bony's madness is that while serving a semi-detention sentence and being made to paint the police station, he wears the best of all disguises... Here again is a first-rate Upfield mystery, made warm by humour, by the background characters and his portrayal of the natural background scene. - The Age

       

      Upfield at his best. - Adelaide News

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      Book 12
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      Suspense

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      Historical Historical Mystery Law Enforcement Mystery

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