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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Vrazda musi pockat ; Vola kmena ; Prekliaty dom
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* Contents derived from the Bratislava,
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Eastern Europe, Europe,:Slovenský spisovateľ , 1988 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Vrazda musi pockat Murder Must Wait, Arthur W. Upfield , Pavol Branko (translator) single work novel crime mystery detective (p. Page numbers unavailable)
Vola kmena The Will of the Tribe, Arthur W. Upfield , Pavol Branko (translator) single work novel mystery detective crime
This adventure of Inspector Napoleon (Bony) Bonaparte is set in North Western Australia; it deals with a corpse in a meteor crater and with vital information hidden behind the impassive mask of an aboriginal tribe, where only the half-black Bony has any hope of reaching it. The interplay between whites and blacks, from assimilated to wholly wild, is subtly and sensitively handled, and Bony emerges as one of the rare detective figures with genuine stature as a man. As in most Upfield novels, the geography, the geology and the cultural anthropology of Australia are living elements in the story (Cover, Collier 1984 ed.).
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Prekliaty dom Venom House, Arthur W. Upfield , Pavol Branko (translator) single work novel crime detective mystery

'The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House - perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aboriginals slaughtered by the Answerth ancestors. Whatever the reason, most people are content to give Venom House and its occupants a wide berth... until a couple of corpses turn up in the lake. Inspector Bonaparte has a sudden urge to get to knows the Answerths and their charming home much better... ' (Publication summary)

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