If I hadn't been put off by the title, this true treat wouldn't have sat unread on my shelf for something like 30 years. It's hard to decide which is better, the environment of Upfield's beloved Australia or his half-aborigine Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Bony has the unfettered mind of his mother's culture and the education of his father's, and it is his constant war to keep them in balance. My favorite books of the series are when Bony's intuition and tracking skills are applied to a civilized environment.