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Venom House

1953

Napoleon Bonaparte believed he was a better detective than most people in the Australian outback were prepared to admit possible of a man who was half aborigine.

Hew saw the mysterious and sinister goings-on at the hated and feared Venom House as a chance to prove it once and for all.

Where the whitey Inspector Stanley had failed to solve one murder, he would succeed in solving two.

All he had to do was beat a harridan of a woman who had broken every man in the region, her half brother who had the muscles of a mammoth and the mind of a moron, and a whole host of other infighters who had nothing to give and everything to hide.

From the 1969 Penguin edition.