Barrakee Mystery

UPFIELD, Arthur. W. The Barrakee Mystery (Pan Books T) An Inspector Napolean Bonaparte Mystery ISBN: 0330023772 Pan Books Ltd., London, 1969, 1st thus., paperback, VG, 249 pp. No loose pages, no inscription or annotations, lean to the spine, binding sound, tanned, foxing to edges and prelims. Covers clean and crisp with gentle rubs to all edges, bump to leading edge of front cover, spine… Read more about this item

London: N, 1965. 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… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, [1965]., 1965. First edition. First edition thus. Originally published by Hutchinson & Co., in 1929. Lightly foxed along the fore-edges else fine in dust jacket. Introduces Napoleon Bonaparte the Aboriginal Australian Detective. Set in the Darling River bush country of New South Wales, the murder of an aborigine is a difficult case for Bony to solve. Published… Read more about this item

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