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Bony and the Black Virgin

Also published as
The Torn Branch

Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-aborigine detective, arrives in the drought-stricken outback of New South Wales.

At a desolate sheep station, two men have been savagely beaten to death.

Clues are scarce in this sun-baked, sand blown country, but Bony's understanding of the bush and the people who live there - both black and white - leads him inexorably to the killer.

As rain floods the parched land, Bony's premonition of disaster is tragically fulfilled.