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The Will of the Tribe (1962)

 

"It is in a harsh and eerie landscape--the crater formed by the meteor they called 'The Stranger'–that another stranger is found . . . dead. In an area where the presence of every outsider is announced by the bush telegraph, how had this man passed unreported? Who was he? How had he died? And what was he doing before he met his end? No person, black or white, can–or will–say. It is up to Bony to provide the answers." - from the 1983 Angus & Robertson "Arkon" edition

"How did the stranger travel to Lucifer's Couch without apparently being seen by either whites, station aborigines or desert aborigines? Why was he killed and carried into the middle of the Crator and dumped–why was he not buried, or at least concealed? Kurt and Rose Brentner and their two adorable little daughters are Bony's hosts while he ponders on this fourteen-week-old puzzle and tries to find the murderer. Bony is a little older in this story, with a little gray in his well-kept black hair, but he has lost none of his abilities." – from "The Armchair Detective"

Location: Wolf Creek Meteor Crater (Lucifer's Couch). Two hundred miles south of Wyndham, Western Australia.

The Will of the Tribe was first printed in America by Doubleday Crime Club in 1962. Heinemann printed the first British edition the same year. Pictured above is the Arkon edition of 1983, printed by Angus and Robertson.

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