Follow My Dust! A biography of Arthur Upfield. With an introd. by Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Melbourne (1957). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xii 238pp.). With frontisp. and 12 full-page plates. Previous owner's name on front fly-leaf. 1st ed. NOTE: Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964) was born in England but at the age of 19 came to Australia where he lived and worked in the outback. During the First World War he served in the Australian Imperial Force at Gallipoli and in France. In the late 1920s he started to write crime novels most of which featured a detective named Napoleon Bonaparte or 'Bony' who was of aboriginal descent.