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Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is a half-caste. His mother is an aborigine and his father is white. Given the choice to live a life as an aborigine or a white person. He chooses the latter. He is proud of the fact he has solved all of his cases. To Napoleon Bonaparte, who is called Bony, this represents the intellect of the aborigine and dispels the myth that aborigines are inferior to whites. Jeffery Anderson has disappeared and the case is five months old. Bony is sent by his superiors to solve the disappearance. The place is Karwir in the outback of Australia and little evidence is left to be retrieved. With all the rituals and beliefs of the Kalchut, tribe of aborigines, who take Bony closer to his heritage than mere words, the case evolves into a suspense of whose secret will be revealed first. A good read.Quotes" I must work against time as well as against the insidious mental poison now beginning to be administered." "That's strange, dear. The Inspector has been frightfully ill with Barcoo sickness. Sergeant Blake says he's so ill that he can hardly walk at all. Are you sure you don't know anything about it?"