- Title:
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Death of a Swagman
- Series:
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An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery #9
- Written by:
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Arthur W. Upfield
- Read by:
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Peter Hosking
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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7 hours 23 minutes
- Published:
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January 01 2009
- Available Date:
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January 01 2009
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742018232
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian; Australian Fiction; Detective; Indigenous Peoples; Mystery; Police Drama & Forensics
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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A classic Australian mystery.
In an isolated hut not far from the sleepy country town of Merino, stockman George Kendall is found dead and it looks very much like murder. Six weeks later, when the murderer is still at large, another stockman turns up in the township and, as a first move, provokes the local sergeant to lock him up. This particular stockman is Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, and there's method in his seeming madness. While serving a semi-detention sentence and being made to paint the police station, he wears the best of all possible disguises for a policeman on the trail of a ruthless and single-minded killer.
"Peter Hosking gives a good-natured reading to a down-under police procedural. Hosking's Australian accent helps the listener visualize the story of Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, who takes only the impossible cases to crack. Half-bushman, half-sophisticate, he gets himself arrested in the small town of Merino so that he can work the case from the inside. The production is technically clean, with varied music introducing and ending the sides."
AudioFile Magazine