THE BARRAKEE MYSTERY
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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
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