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Bushranger
of the Skies

Also published as

No Footprints in the Bush

1940

He was called Napoleon Bonaparte, though it was his friends and not his enemies who nicknamed him Bony.

But, like his famous namesake, he was a brilliant and painstaking man who laid his plans with precision and an almost unerring instinct for knowing what the other man would try to do.

It was this quality that had gained him the position of Detective Inspector in the South Australian Police Department.

When reports of strange happenings in the Land of the Burning water came through, it was his capaciity for detection and intuitive knowledge of the Bush that he was chosen to carry out an investigation.

Bony was ordered to make contact with Sgt. Errey, Senior Police Officer of the District, and it was while travelling to his part of the country that Bony witnessed the bombing and murder of Sgt. errey in his car, before they were even able to meet.

This book is not only an unusual tale of detection, but is also a fascinating picture of the strange life led by those tribes of the Australian Bush whose amazing powers are by no means, as Bony well knew, 'old wives' tales'.

From the 1949 Penguin Edition.