BONY AND THE KELLY GANG (A Scribner Crime Classics) [Mass Market Paperback]

Arthur Upfield (Author)

Book Description

Series: A Scribner Crime Classics | Publication Date: September 30, 1988

The inimitable Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte must penetrate a close-knit group of hard-drinking Irishmen to find the killer of a government officer, who was looking for illicit "stills."

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone (September 30, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0020258801
• ISBN-13: 978-0020258803
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,194,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Caught in Irish rival gangfights, Bony becomes a matchmaker!, February 18, 2000

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This review is from: Bony and the Kelly Gang (Hardcover)

This is another Bony tale that gets better with each reading. And it has enough uprorious battling that it'd make a super movie. Somewhere in the south central hills, two Irish gangs are carrying on bootlegging operations. A govt agent gets murdered as he ventured to close, so Bony is called in. Patiently he learns more and more , bit by bit. As he gets nearer to identifying the villain, he also has to find a way to help the romance along between a gal of one 'gang' and a young man of the other, Along the way, Bony has to take on a mighty leader in a knockdown, bloody brawl - not just once, but twice. If you're ever thinking of going to Australia, this book will force you to go out into those hills and try to find remnants of these colorful settlers! This one is right up there for me with The Battlin' Prophet, The Bone is Pointed and Murder Must Wait. Hey: you don't have to be Irish to love this one"