Bony and the Mouse

This is the twenty-third instalment in Mr. Upfield’s detective series featuring the Australian half-case Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Western Australia finds Bony posing as a horse-breaker and later, barman, in a close-knit outback town. There are two and eventually four murders to solve. Bony soon finds out who did the murders but proving it in the eyes of white law is a tricky problem. Superb storytelling makes this one of the best Bony novels.