With "Murder Down Under", Australian mystery writer Arthur W. (William) Upfield (1890-1964) introduces his half-Aborigine sleuth, Det.-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony), whose conscientious and exhaustive investigation of the disappearance of a Western Australia farmer unearths murder and a mysterious, amateur criminologist ... Bony's masquerade as a worker on the Fence brings in quality re-creation of the wheat lands, farmers, pubs, dances, and the people of the land down under ...