The Sands of Windee

I am a big fan of the Leaphorn-Chee Navajo Tribal Police mysteries by the late Tony Hillerman. I've also enjoyed a couple of Hillerman's other books, so I was very sad when he died in October of 2008. In recommending his books to a friend, I looked at the Hillerman entry in Wikipedia and found that he had been inspired by and had long given credit to Arthur Upfield, an Australian writer who authored a series of mysteries featuring a brilliant and unorthodox detective, Napoleon Bonaparte. Bony is half English and half aboriginal, with the strengths of both heritages. Although these books were written in the thirties and forties, I found that our library has many of them. I just finished The Sands of Windee - I think I like it more than Hillerman! A clever plot, with vivid characters, many enjoyable incidents, sprinkled with outback lore. A quick and very enjoyable read!