Bony and the Kelly Gang + Bony and the White Savage

Two more excellent stories by Arthur Upfield, featuring the half aborigine detective, Napoleon Bonaparte. Bony and the Kelly Gang is delightful! As usual, the setting is Australia, but this time in a deep, nearly inaccessible, valley populated by two lively and rebellious extended Irish families. A good mystery filled with warm human interactions***. Bony and the White Savage is an excellent mystery/thriller - still some light touches and good fellowship, but a darker theme and deeper mystery.

***Amazing coincidence! Today's NY Times has a story about Ned Kelly:

"In Australia, Kelly needs no introduction; for Americans, it may help to think of him as Jesse James, Thomas Paine and John F. Kennedy rolled into one. Born about 1854 to an Irish convict exiled to Australia, Kelly became a folk hero as a very young man. He took up arms against a corrupt British constabulary, robbed banks and wrote an explosive manifesto. He was shot and arrested in a final shootout in which he wore homemade metal armor, and in 1880 he was hanged by the Anglo-Irish establishment he despised. "

Kelly and these events serve as a key backdrop to the story in Bony and the Kelly Gang!