Detective Inspector NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
	Rising to his feet, he walked slowly down the street at the edge of the sidewalk. His eagle gaze scrutinized the surface of the sidewalk on his right and the gutter on his left. He found nothing. He went on past the entrance to the parsonage, past the entrance to the parsonage garage, on and past the church. He retraced his steps. For a moment he halted at the driveway, and for another he loitered outside the parsonage gate. Beyond that gate he saw the imprints of tennis shoes on the sheltered path. Between the gate and the roadway the sidewalk was blown clear of sand, and its hard surface registered no imprints. The tennis shoes had been worn by the minister, and the imprints might have been one hour or ten hours old. The wind's velocity was increasing with the rising of the sun, as Bony sauntered back up the street. A town dog came out of a gate to wrinkle its nose at him in friendly fashion, and to it Bony said: "We don't mind how hard the wind blows. It has done all it could to frustrate me. Now you had better go home again, because I am going to call on Sergeant Marshall."
Death of a Swagman, 1945 Arthur W. Upfield "The complex half-caste Bony is, I think, my favorite fictional detective of the past 25 years." Anthony Boucher Bibliography An Author Bites the Dust 1948 The Bachelors of Broken Hill 1950 The Battling Prophet 1956 The Bone is Pointed 1947 Bony and the Kelly Gang 1960 Death of a Lake 1954 Death of a Swagman 1945 The Devil's Steps 1946 Journey to the Hangman 1959 Man of Two Tribes 1956 The Mountains Have a Secret 1948 Murder Down Under 1937 Murder Must Wait 1953 The Mystery of Swordfish Reef 1943 The New Shoe 1951 No Footprints in the Bush 1944 The Sands of Windee 1931 Sinister Stones 1954 The Torn Branch 1959 The Widows of Broome 1950 The Will of the Tribe 1962 Winds of Evil 1937 Wings Above the Diamantina 1936
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