The Bony Mysteries
The Barrakee Mystery
The Sands of Windee
Wings Above the Diamantina
Mr. Jelly's Business
Winds of Evil
The Bone is Pointed
The Mystery of Swordfish Reef
Bushranger of the Skies
Death of a Swagman
The Devil's Steps
An Author Bites the Dust
The Mountains Have a Secret
The Widows of Broome
The Bachelors of Broken Hill
The New Shoe
Venom House
Murder Must Wait
Death of a Lake
The Cake in the Hat Box
The Battling Prophet
Man of Two Tribes
Bony Buys a Woman
Bony and the Mouse
Bony and the Black Virgin
Bony and the Kelly Gang
Bony and the White Savage
The Will of the Tribe
Madman's Bend
The Lake Frome Monster
Other Books
The House of Cain
The Beach of Atonement
A Royal Abduction
Gripped by Drought
The Murchison Murders
Breakaway House
The Great Mebourne Cup Mystery
The Gifts of Frank Cobbold
Up and Down Australia
Up and Down the Real Australia
Follow My Dust
Life and Times of Bony's Man
The
Mystery
of Swordfish Reef (1939)
"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." - from the 1970 Pan edition
"A most unusual Bony adventure in that sea instead of dry land is Bony's hunting ground. Mrs. Spinks and daughter Marion are very worried when the DO-ME does not arrive home with the other fishing boats. The head of the passenger, Mr. Erickson, is trawled up, riddled with bullets, but the fate of Marion's twin brother, Bill Spinks, and young Garroway, joint owners of the DO-ME, is unknown until Bony, in the guise of a sportsman enthusiastically fishing for the famed swordfish, solves the mystery." – from "The Armchair Detective"
Location: Bermagui, NSW on the Tasman 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.
