"By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-timer Karl Mueller is roused from his drink-sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees on waking (or thinks he sees) is enough to make him stiffen with fear, and more than enough to worry the police into calling for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. The disturber of Mueller's rest is Marvin Rhudder--once an upstanding theological student, now a convicted rapist and basher, a bloody savage whose recapture will put all of Bony's sleuthing and tracking skills to the test." - from the 1988 Angus & Robertson "Eden" edition

"Karl Mueller finds it hard to believe he really saw Marvin Rhudder, thief, rapist and murderer, returning to his parents' homestead. After much thought he reports his suspicions to the police and Bony travels to One Tree Farm to stay with Matt and Emma Jukes as Nat Bonnar, tourist and fisherman. (The "One Tree" is a Karri tree–"girth at the butt sixty-eight feet. A hundred and seventy-seven feet up to the first branch–two hundred and eighty-six feet to the top.) Bony, with the help of tracker Lew and his son Fred, establishes that Marvin has not left the neighborhood. After a series of exciting sorties into the wild and dangerous shore, lined with many caves, Bony finds his man." – from "The Armchair Detective"

Location: Extreme southwest point of Wesern Australia. Rhudder's Inlet, almost within sight of Leeuwin Lighthouse.

Bony and the White Savage was printed in 1961 by Heinemann in Britain and by the Doubleday Crime Club in America. The Eden edition of 1988, printed by Angus and Robertson, is shown above.