My first Arthur Upfield novel. Rather embarassingly, the person who pointed me in his direction was a French friend, in Paris, 4 or so years ago. This rather showed me up as I had been living in Australia for over 10 years but had never come across him... so finally I have read a Bony novel and it was really a very enjoyable experience. The outback (in this instance the North West of the country, around the Kimberleys) is really well captured, good story which moved along fast and a gallery of excellent characters, who could only be Australian. Judging from this book, Upfield was very good at encapsulating 'Australian-ness' and has to be lauded for his extensive depiction and respect of Aborigenal lives and customs in a time when it was probably not that common. I'll defnitely read more of his books. ( )

THis s a classic Bony "outback" story set in Western Australia. A police constable is found shot dead in his car, with his black tracker missing. Bony is looking for the killer and so is the local Aborigine tribe. ( )