Cirrus@Austlit

The novel is 'about the murder of a rich woman racehorse-owner in a Melbourne hotel on the eve of the Melbourne Cup, the narrator being a Sydney woman-journalist. ... [T]he poor little beautiful narrator has been jilted by Larry, who has married the rich woman, and now wants to be free. Another lovely popsy, in tow with a handsome blackmailer, cannot buy her I.O.U.s back from the rich woman. She it is who finds the body. Then the victim's jewels are discovered in the narrator's room; the inquiry ranges over the pub, out to the Melbourne Cup, and concludes with an all-night vigil, with the narrator as bait for the murderer, in a hotel room.'

Source: 'Reviewed Briefly', The Bulletin, 16 January 1952, p.2.

'Broome is a small, sun-drenched town on the barren northwest coast of Australia. It's small enough that everyone knows everyone else's business. How, then, did someone murder two widows in similar fashion and not leave any clues? It's a case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, who arrives on the scene incognito. He's barely begun his investigation when a third woman is killed. Bony realises that he is dealing with a madman, and that time is running out to stop a forth murder.'(Publication summary)

'After the murder of Clarice Dodd, the selfish, easy-going, wealthy owner of Rockwater, the tale moves in a familiar pattern of questionings by detectives, indications of the guilt of every person involved—except the murderer—in turn, a second murder, then closes abruptly, with an unsatisfactory solution that leaves a number of ragged edges.'

Source:

'Latest Fiction', The Advertiser, 8 July 1944, p.3.

'The naked body of a man is discovered entombed in the wall of the Split Point Lighthouse on Australia's southeast coast; the murder is two months old, and the identity of the victim is unknown. Of Split Point's suspicious inhabitants, only Ed Penwarden, the coffin-maker, befriends Bony upon his arrival. As he delves into the case, Bony is curious to know why a coffin is moved in the night, who was the girl seen struggling with Dick Lake on the cliff top--and why the Bully Buccaneers came to deal in death.' (Publication summary)

Sweet Night for Murder tells how young and pretty Cathy Simpson comes to Sydney to spend a few weeks with friends before her marriage to wealthy grazier Roger Clements. But it is with horror that her friends Keith and Jess Watson find her murdered on their terrace one beautiful summer evening. However, when Inspector Grogan and Sergeant Manning, of the Sydney C.I.B., start their inquiries, a trail of deceit and even blackmail is unearthed, and it seems that many of Cathy's so-called friends have good reason to dislike and even fear her. But with their usual calm investigations Grogan and Manning manage to ascertain the identity of the murderer as the story comes to a thrilling ending (The Australian Women's Weekly, 31 August 1960).