Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate weather forecasts had helped farmers all over Australia, lived nearby. Ben died after a three-week drinking binge and a doctor certified death as due to delirium tremens - but Bony's host insists that whatever Ben died of it wasn't alcohol. . .
This is an unusual crime story for Upfield, but, revealing the vast range of his interests, it is one of the better ones . . . Constable Alice McGorr returns and is at her strongest and most profane best . . . she is extraordinary, and should be appreciated as one of his major creations. - from The Spirit of Australia by Ray Browne.
Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives - BBC
