Upfield, Arthur W.

THE BARRAKEE MYSTERY.

Pp. [vi]+326+[2](glossary); red papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the lower free endpaper slightly offset; Heinemann, London, 1965. Second U.K. edition. Loder p. 230. *Originally published by Hutchinson, in 1929. This was Upfield's first detective story, and marked the debut of the part-Aboriginal police inspector, Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) - a character inspired by the author's meeting with an old friend, Tracker Leon. The novel was not published in America until 1965, when it appeared under the title The Lure of the Bush. Item #132102

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