A hated Drunk has disappeared after beating his wife to death. He may or may not have been killed. As the Darling River rises to flood level, Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-aborigine detective, goes to work to find a body, if there is one, and a murderer, if there's a body. - from the 1966 Pan edition
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