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Garden City, N.Y., Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, 1962.
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The aborigines, who knew how many eagles flew over their inland desert, must have known who put the dead white man into Lucifer's Couch. But no one in Hall's Creek, white or black, reported seeing the stranger - and there were no tracks around the meteor crater. Was the murder done by whites or blacks or by both in collusion? Bony listened to the ancient tribal legends and found truth nobody wanted to believe.
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LibraryThing member devenish
While being a great fan of most of Upfield's writing,with "The Will of the Tribe",I must make an exception. This is a very nasty book,being both sexist and racist. I felt that the author would have been well advised not to have written it at all. Most unpleasant albeit ,as always,well-written.
LibraryThing member Bjace
It certainly isn't politically correct. When an unknown white man is found dead in a meteor crater, Bony is charged with finding out why he was there. His research leads him to a cattle station where people are outwardly cordial, but tell him nothing. A lot of the book consists of a subplot
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concerning the local aboriginal tribe, which is interesting but makes the author look lik he finds the aborigines a lower form of life. Solution is also kind of confusing. Show Less
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English
Original publication date
1962
Physical description
216 p.; 22 cm