Spine a bit creased, rolled, light read crease, a little edge wear and rubbing. A little tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "Tucked away in the mountains of New South Wales is Cork Valley, inhabited by an odd lot of hard-drinking Irishmen. here a government officer, looking for illicit 'stills,' has been murdered, and it's Napoleon Bonaparte's job to find the killer. Disguised as a horse-thief the famous half-aboriginal detective hitchhikes into the valley. But before Bony can spring the trap he develops a strong affection for these lawless, lusty characters . . . ";... View More...
Spine slightly rolled, light reading crease, corners bumped, minor edge wear and rubbing, price tag on front cover. A nice copy. ; Napoleon Bonaparte; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 221 pages;
"A curious clue in the unsolved murder of a drifter brings Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte to a lonely town in the Australian outback. Going under cover, Bony must use both detective skills and the unusual abilities learned through his half-aboriginal background to track a killer who has already been responsible for three deaths - and whose frustration may soon lead him to kill again. " View More...
Spine slightly slanted, a bit creased. A little edge wear and rubbing. Some tanning but text is clean and unmarked. An attractive copy. "Myra Thomas, an acquitted murderess, appears to have walked off the train somewhere along the four hundred miles of track that cross the treeless Nullarbor Plain in Southern Australia; and Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the only policeman capable of coping with such country, is out looking for her. With two camels and a dog for company, Bony searches for a clue. He finds a missing woman and a dead man; he finds a murderess and five murderers; on... View More...
Slight edge wear, a little rippling (dampstain) at bottom corner of the last few pages. Interior clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "Myra Thomas, an acquitted murderess, appears to have walked off the train somewhere along the four hundred miles of track that cross the treeless Nullarbor Plain in Southern Australia; and Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the only policeman capable of coping with such country, is out looking for her. With two camels and a dog for company, Bony searches for a clue. He finds a missing woman and a dead man; he finds a murderess and five murderers; on top o... View More...
Spine slanted, a bit creased, corners bumped, minor edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy. ; Arkon paperback edition, 192 pp. ; Napoleon Bonaparte; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 192 pages; "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. The local police have given up, the trail is cold - the only hope is Bony. And when Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on the scene a new dimension has been added to the puzzle. A fifth child has vanished and the mother has been found ... View More...
Spine slightly rolled, corners bumped, slight edge wear. A bright, attractive copy. "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. The local police have given up, the trail is cold - the only hope is Bony. And when Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on the scene a new dimension has been added to the puzzle. A fifth child has vanished and the mother has been found lying beside the empty cot . . . dead. But Bony's brief is to find those babies and, for once, m... View More...
Berkley Medallion F927, 176 pp. Spine somewhat creased and slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear, darkening. Store stamps on front end paper and all three edges. Some browning but text is clean and unmarked. A solid copy.
"Constable Martin Stenhouse, of Agar's Lagoon was found dead in his jeep with all clues pointing to Jack Musgrave, his aborigine tracker. But when Inspector Bonaparte began his investigation, he learned that Jacky Musgrave "had become a horse," and then Bony knew that Jacky couldn't be the murderer"; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View More...
Spine a bit rolled, corners scuffed, light edge wear and rubbing. A few pages show some rippling (moisture) down the leading edge. Interior clean and unmarked. A solid copy.
"Constable Martin Stenhouse, of Agar's Lagoon was found dead in his jeep with all clues pointing to Jack Musgrave, his aborigine tracker. But when Inspector Bonaparte began his investigation, he learned that Jacky Musgrave "had become a horse," and then Bony knew that Jacky couldn't be the murderer"; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View More...
Slight spine slant with some rippling evident along spine (bound too tightly?), corners bumped, slight edge wear binding tight. Slight tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "Two men are killed by cyanide poisoning before Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte comes to Broken Hill to take up the case, and a third dies soon after he arrives. All die in crowded public places, and all are elderly and single. Witnesses recall a woman being near each man before he died, but their descriptions seem to be of entirely different women. "Clues are old and witnesses have been mish... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. A bright, attractive copy. "Two men are killed by cyanide poisoning before Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte comes to Broken Hill to take up the case, and a third dies soon after he arrives. All die in crowded public places, and all are elderly and single. Witnesses recall a woman being near each man before he died, but their descriptions seem to be of entirely different women. "Clues are old and witnesses have been mishandled by an inept investigator before Bony arrives in the prosperous mining town, but wi... View More...
Spine slightly rolled, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. A somewhat tight, attractive copy. ; Napoleon Bonaparte; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 226 pages;
"Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate forecasts have helped farmers all over Australia, until recently lived nearby. But he has died after a three-week drinking binge and a doctor certified death resulting from delirium tremens. Yet Bony's host insists that whatever Ben died of, it wasn't alcohol." View More...
Berkley Medallion F832, 160 pp. First American paperback printing. Spine a bit rolled, creased, corners bumped, a couple creases to front cover, a little edge wear and rubbing. Pages 9 and 11 have closed tears (can be taped) across the center of the pages. Some tanning but text is clean and unmarked. ; Napoleon Bonaparte; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; "Terror in the Sun . . . Deep in the Australian outback a woman is brutally slain. Her small daughter vanishes. Is Ole Fren Yorkey, the half-crazed wanderer, the killer? Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte must scour the bushlands half a continent away fro... View More...
Corners bumped, slight edge wear, a little creasing to front cover. An attractive copy. ; Napoleon Bonaparte; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 192 pages; "When a policeman sent to investigate the disappearance of two pretty girl hikers turns up murdered, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte pays a visit to the remote hotel in the Grampian Mountains where the girls were last seen. There the suave, organ-playing proprietor, his strangely terrified father, an ex-U. S. Paratrooper with a penchant for knife throwing, and a talking parrot involve Bony in the most bizarre adventure of his career. "... View More...
Corners bumped, slight edge wear, scuffing along edges of spine, binding fairly tight. Interior clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "It was a calm October day when the three men set out for a day's fishing from the small Australian seaside town. No one can understand why they didn't return, since no trace of the men or their boat is found during an extensive search. "Weeks later an explanation finally surfaces. A passing fisherman hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing men. The bullet hole in its temple raises more questions than it answers. "Who wanted the murd... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, slightly creased, corners bumped, slight edge wear. Spine cracked through at page 92/93. Otherwise a nice copy. ; Napoleon Bonaparte; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 256 pages; "It was a calm October day when the three men set out for a day's fishing from the small Australian seaside town. No one can understand why they didn't return, since no trace of the men or their boat is found during an extensive search. "Weeks later an explanation finally surfaces. A passing fisherman hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing men. The bullet hole in its temple ... View More...
Spine a bit slanted, a little edge wear and rubbing, interior clean and unmarked. About a third of pages are wavy, presumably from damp. Overall a nice copy. The naked body of a man is discovered entombed in the wall of the Split Point Lighthouse on Australia's southeast coat; the murder is two months old, and the identity of the victim is unknown. Of Split Point's suspicious inhabitants, only Ed Penwarden, the coffin-maker, befriends Bony upon his arrival. As he delves into the case, Bony is curious to know why a coffin is moved in the night, who was the girl seen struggling with Dick Lake o... View More...
156 pp. Originally published as "Bony and the Black Virgin". Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, small crease to front cover. Interior bright and clean. A nice copy. "Two men have been savagely beaten to death in the drought-stricken outback of New South Wales. Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte takes up investigation of the double murder at Lake Jane, the desolate sheep station in the vast, sun-baked country. While clues are scarce, Bony is drawn into the bush, and his insight into its inhabitants leads him to unravel this deceptively simple crime. The solution to... View More...
156 pp. Originally published as "Bony and the Black Virgin". Spine a bit rolled, reading crease, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, interior clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "Two men have been savagely beaten to death in the drought-stricken outback of New South Wales. Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte takes up investigation of the double murder at Lake Jane, the desolate sheep station in the vast, sun-baked country. While clues are scarce, Bony is drawn into the bush, and his insight into its inhabitants leads him to unravel this deceptively simple crime. The so... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, somewhat creased, reading crease, corners worn, a little cover creasing, minor edge wear and chipping. Interior clean and unmarked. A good reading copy. "Broome is a little, sun-drenched town on the barren northwest coast of Australia - the kind of town where everyone knows everyone else's business. How then did someone murder Broome's two most attractive widows and get away without leaving a clue? "Bony arrived in Broome just after two well-to-do widows had been brutally strangled. The local police were short of help and completely stymied by a murderer who c... View More...
0684183897 Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, a couple of dents along the bottom edge. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. An attractive copy. ; Napoleon Bonaparte; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 246 pages; "Broome is a little, sun-drenched town on the barren northwest coast of Australia - the kind of town where everyone knows everyone else's business. How then did someone murder Broome's two most attractive widows and get away without leaving a clue? "Bony arrived in Broome just after two well-to-do widows had been brutally strangled. The local police were short of h... View More...
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