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THE BACHELORS OF BROKEN HILL
by Upfield, Arthur W
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1958. Pp. [iv]+254; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards a trifle sprung, the top fore-corners and foot of spine slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, designed by Bill Morden, faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split, a couple of tiny surface grazes to front panel, both flaps vertically creased at fore-edge; small inked initial, owner's name and bookseller's stamp on upper free endpaper, a little light foxing; Heinemann, London, 1958. First U.K. edition. Loder p. 233. *First published by Doubleday, New York, 1950. A Detective Book Club edition was also issued in New York, circa 1950, with the pages reset. The first Australian edition was issued by Invincible Press, Sydney, between 1950 and 1953.
Reviews
On Sep 21 2013, CloggieDownunder said:
The Bachelors of Broken Hill is the fourteenth book in the popular Bony series by Arthur Upfield. After two cyanide poisonings in the outback town of Broken Hill have left the local police and a Detective Inspector from Sydney baffled, Bony consents to take the case. Both victims are elderly bachelors with a tendency to spill food on their clothes, although Bony is the first to concede this is not a killing offence. In both cases, a tall, older lady was at the scene, but descriptions of the possible poisoner are, at best, vague. While Bony is investigating, a third poisoning takes place, followed by the stabbing of a female police constable. In this instalment, Bony employs the use of a sketch artist, a journalist and a burglar hoping to escape notice away from the city. There is a blue bag with a red drawstring, a baby’s dummy, a glass knife, a black tracker, a stooping customer and a fugitive magician. While Bony may , at times sound slightly arrogant regards his skills, he always gives credit where it is due and is happy to praise the hard-working local constabulary. Another masterpiece of detection.
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Details
- Seller
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 145366
- Title
- THE BACHELORS OF BROKEN HILL
- Author
- Upfield, Arthur W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
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