"The incomparable Detective-Inspedtor Napoleon Bonaparte is back--and now he must solve one of his most baffling cases. When Bony sets out to investigate two bizarre murders at Wirragatta Station deep in the Australian outback, all the odds are against him. The crimes were committed a year before, the scent is now cold, and any surviving clues have been confused by a bumbling policeman. As Bony gets closer to the trail, the mysterious murderer sets out to stop him. Can Bony stop the killer first?" - from the 1987 Collier edition

"We meet Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte in the guise of Joe Fisher, swagman, struggling through a sand storm on his way to the little town of Carie to investigate two murders that had taken place many months before during similar dust storms. He hopes to discover the strangler who is terrorizing the area before he claims another victim. This case taxes Bony's ingenuity but, in spite of the time that has elapsed, his knowledge of the terrain and his extraordinary eyesight enable him to track down the murderer." –from "The Armchair Detective"

Location: Wirragatta Station (fictional) near Broken Hill, NSW

Winds of Evil was first published by Angus and Robertson of Sydney in 1937. A Canadian edition was printed by A.J. Saunders of Toronto the same year and a British edition was printed by Hamish Hamilton of London in 1939. Doubleday printed the first American edition in 1944 as part of its Crime Club series. The Collier Books edition of 1987 is pictured above.