The Mystery of Swordfish Reef

One calm October day three men set out from Bermagui harbour in a fishing launch and disappeared into the rippleless Tasman Sea. Then the head of one of them, riddled with bullets, is brought up in a ship's trawl--it belonged to Ericson, formerly one of the Big Five at Scotland Yard. Why had he been shot and thrown overboard? Who had killed him? And where were the launchman and his mate? The bush had never defeated Bony but there were no clues in the sepulchre of the sea.

The Mystery of Swordfish Reef was printed by Angust and Robertson of Sydney and McClelland and Steward of Toronto in 1939. Doubleday Crime Club printed the first American edition in 1939. Heinemann printed the first British Edition in 1960. The Pan edition of 1970 is pictured above.