Murder Must Wait

In the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, four babies have mysteriously disappeared--all boys, all under three months old, and all apparently neglected by their mothers. The local police have given up, the trail is cold--the only hope is Bony. And when Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on the scene a new dimension has been added to the puzzle: a fifth child has vanished and his mother has been found lying beside the empty cot--dead. But Bony's brief is to find those babies and, for once, murder must wait.

Murder Must Wait was published in 1953 by the Doubday Crime Club. The first British edition was published by Heinemann the same year. Shown above is the 1987 Collier edition.