Jeffrey Anderson was a big man with a foul temper--a sadist, and an ugly drunk. No one cared that no trace of the man could be found when his horse, an animal as mean as its owner, came home riderless. No one except Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte(Bony), who is determined to solve the mystery.

I liked that it took place in Australia. That the characters talked like Australians, and that the world was surreal from my own. I liked reading about Aborigines and loved following Bony through this case.

Because the book was old, there were a lot of mistakes that Upfield and his editor missed entirely. And sometimes things dragged on uselessly. But I never seemed to get bored...

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Interested, intrigued, excited, angry…

Has written many other Bony mysteries, and was born in 1888 and died in 1964.

If you like Australia this is perfect. The mystery is good and only gets better.

Sometimes its vocaulary goes over my head, and I'm sure it would be worse for many people.

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