A cat... a ping-pong ball... a drunken gardener... With these slight clues to go on Detective-Inspector Bonaparte investigates the mysterious death of famous author, Mervyn Blake, who dies an agonising death late one night in his writing room.\u003cbr /\u003eBut how did he die? No one knows. No one that is until Bony's acute observation of human nature uncovers the murderer - and the method used to kill Blake. One of the few Bonaparte mysteries not set in the outback, reveals Upfield at his best and most ingenious.\u003cbr /\u003e \u003cbr /\u003e\u003ci\u003eNapoleon Bonaparte - my best detective.\u003c/i\u003e - Daily Express