On a lonely dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep is found. In it is
Constable Stenhouse - shot dead. His black tracker has disappeared.
Inspector
Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-aborigine detective, soon learns that he is not alone
in his search for the criminal.
The local aborigine tribe is seeking vengeance
too
Bony, using all his skill and knowledge
of the outback's ways, is hard pressed to win the race between the execution of
the white man's law and the black man's primitive justice.
from the 1958
Pan edition
Publishing History
Australia
United
Kingdom 1955 Heinemann, London
United States - Sinister Stones
1954 Doubleday Crime Club
