"When Eric Maidstone was found dead near Bore Ten, just west of the Dingo-proof Fence, the first thought of those who discovered his body was that he might have been attacked by the rogue camel known as the "Lake Frome Monster". But camels don't carry guns . . . and Maidstone had a bullet-hole in his chest that put the Monster in the clear. So who did kill this young man? It was up to Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, disguides as a worker on the Fence, to find out." - from the 1988 Angus & Robertson "Eden" edition

"Maidstone is found shot to death near Bore 10. The aborigine trackers can find no clue to the circumstances of his death, and it is some three weeks and many sand storms later that Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, alias Ed Bonnay, arrives to delve into the problem. Bony doesn't make much progress until he deliberately lets it slip that he is a policeman. This really stirs things up. Of course, Bony solves the mystery; does he ever fail? This is not quite as good as a completely Arthur U pfield tale; it drags in parts, but some chapters are very gripping." – from "The Armchair Detective"

Location: Lake Frome, South Australia.

This book was completed by J.L. Price and Dorothy Strange after Upfield's death, using notes he had left . It was first printed in Britain by Heinemann in 1966. The first American edition of printed in 1983 by the American Reprint Company of New York. Pictured above is the cover of the 1988 Eden edition, printed by Angus & Robertson.