The Mystery Of Swordfish Reef
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Few detectives are as uniquely suited to the wild, unforgiving landscapes of Australia as Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte — Bony — the half-Aboriginal investigator at the heart of Arthur Upfield's gripping mystery, The Mystery of Swordfish Reef. When a fishing party vanishes without trace off the rugged New South Wales coastline near Bermagui, Bony goes undercover as a deep-sea angler to unravel a case that the local police have been unable to crack, navigating treacherous ocean waters and an equally treacherous web of human secrets. Upfield masterfully fuses the procedural rigour of classic detective fiction with an intimate, almost anthropological portrait of coastal Australian life in the mid-twentieth century. His prose carries the salt-spray immediacy of the sea alongside a quiet, observational intelligence that reflects Bony's own dual-world perspective. A pioneer of Australian crime writing, Upfield crafted in Bony one of literature's most original detectives — a man who reads the land (and sea) as fluently as he reads the human heart. Whether the killer lies among the tight-knit fishing community or somewhere far darker, the answer waits beneath the surface of Swordfish Reef.
Author: Arthur Upfield
Format: Hardback
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Few detectives are as uniquely suited to the wild, unforgiving landscapes of Australia as Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte — Bony — the half-Aboriginal investigator at the heart of Arthur Upfield's gripping mystery, The Mystery of Swordfish Reef. When a fishing party vanishes without trace off the rugged New South Wales coastline near Bermagui, Bony goes undercover as a deep-sea angler to unravel a case that the local police have been unable to crack, navigating treacherous ocean waters and an equally treacherous web of human secrets. Upfield masterfully fuses the procedural rigour of classic detective fiction with an intimate, almost anthropological portrait of coastal Australian life in the mid-twentieth century. His prose carries the salt-spray immediacy of the sea alongside a quiet, observational intelligence that reflects Bony's own dual-world perspective. A pioneer of Australian crime writing, Upfield crafted in Bony one of literature's most original detectives — a man who reads the land (and sea) as fluently as he reads the human heart. Whether the killer lies among the tight-knit fishing community or somewhere far darker, the answer waits beneath the surface of Swordfish Reef.