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Loading... Murder Must Wait (1953)by Arthur Upfield
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Another vintage Bony mystery in the kind of setting where he is at his best, a small Australian country town, in this case Mitford in New South Wales, where a series of four thefts of babies has climaxed with a fifth which has escalated to include the murder of the child's mother ; even before the fifth case, the local police and the state police had admitted they were stymied and called in Bony, who arrives just in time to begin by investigating the fifth case. ( ) "In the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, four babies have mysteriously disappeared--all boys, all under three months old, and all apparently neglected by their mothers." This is a change from the usual Inspector Bonaparte story, where he must track a missing person across the outback. Also, unlike other books, he has a partner of sorts in this one, Police Constable Alice McGorr. She's up to the job, though, and I liked seeing Bony as part of the team, rather than fighting the system as he so frequently does. Even the ending is great. Really worth reading. CMB no reviews | add a review
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Murder is a serious business e" but for once it had to take second place ... In the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, five babies had been stolen e" all were boys less than three months old, and all had apparently been neglected by their mothers. The local Criminal Investigation Branch had given up, and on his arrival a cold trail faced Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-Aborigine detective who had never failed to finish a case. No library descriptions found. |
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