BONY AND THE WHITE SAVAGE - Arthur Upfield

AUSTRALIANA 1961 1st Edition published by Heinemann, 230 pages, author Arthur Upfield.  'Dorothy' hand written on the front fly leaf, two marks where tape has been removed.  'Atkinson High School' hand written in rear cover, 2 marks where tape has been removed, 2 brown marks. Cover in excellent condition, pages tight and in good condition.

Sleeping by the roadside, Karl Mueller, old timer in the deep south-west of Western Australia, sees or thinks he sees Marvin Rhudder, rapist, basher, gaol-bird on his way home to Rhudder's Inlet.  Whether nightmare or fact, the merest suspicion is enough to worry the policy into obtaining the help of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.  For Marvin Rhudder - a one-time theological student - had become a Kedic, a man 'possessed', who in one of the innumerable caves behind Australia's Front Door, watches and waits.  His former play-companion, Sadie, now a lonely and introspective young woman, is the guardian of some secret.  Along treacherous cliffs, among explosive feelings, Bony and Lew, his aborigine tracker, stalk their man.  What they find, sends Lew shouting into a stromy night, and leaves even Bony shaken by the Unnameable.