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Murder Must Wait

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Four babies are missing in the town of Mitford, New South Wales. The babies were all male, all healthy, under 3 months old, and apparently all neglected or unwanted. The local police have given up. Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in after a fifth baby goes missing, and this time, the mother is killed. Of all the cases he's worked, this one has him entering a foreign world of infants. He calls in an assistant on this one, Police Constable Alice McGorr for a little female insight.

I really enjoyed this book. It was a treat to see Bony working with a partner. But the domestic side is never allowed to overshadow the mystery. It's not at all warm and fuzzy, just a pleasant change and setting for this book. Highly recommended and worth searching for.

CMB

Mitford is in New South Wales. It is the scene of Sgt. Yoti's homicide case. A superior officer advises that Napoleon Bonaparte is to look at the baby cases. Yoti goes to the scene of a murder. A woman has been murdered and the baby cot is empty. The baby is the fifth one to go missing.

When Bony returns from the murdered woman's rooms he has a pair of shoes. Inspection of footprints yields the point that a man may have done the killing and a woman the taking of the baby. A neighbor, a Mrs. thring, feels that Mrs. Rockcliff, the victim, had no husband and had no friends.

The Victoria Police Department sends Alice McGorr to help Bony in the investigation. Bony sets Alice McGorr to discovering patterns regarding the abducted babies. Bony is a half-caste detective and his assistant, Alice, is a member of the lower classes. Such things mattered, it seems, when this book was written. Teams of traditional investigators had already failed to make any headway on the cases, four baby abductions at that point, when Bony is summoned to action.

The story is clever.