Cake in the Hat Box Tapa dura - 1970

London, United Kingdom: William Heinemann Ltd, 1977. reprinted 1977, (Originally published in 1955). Fine in near fine dust jacket, clipped but with price sticker intact £ 4.50, light wear. Inspector Napolian Bonaparte. the 19th in Arthur Upfield's Bony series. The story starts with the discovery by a long-distance truck driver of the body of Constable Stenhouse in his jeep on the road to Agar's Lagoon. Stenhouse, a competent policeman but not a well-liked man, has been shot, and his native tracker is missing. At first, it looks like, the tracker, Jackie Musgrove, has shot his Constable and cleared out with his swag and rifle. But the local blacks are making smoke signals and gathering purposefully. Bony happens to be in the town of Agar's Lagoon due to engine trouble in his flight home from Broome, and as the case gets more interesting, he relishes being asked to help with the investigation. . Later Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.