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In "Murder Must Wait," Arthur William Upfield brings his celebrated detective, Bony, to the isolated town of Mitford, New South Wales. A series of five unexplained child abductions creates a climate of fear, culminating in the murder of a mother connected to one of the missing babies. Bony must unravel the tangled clues and navigate the rural community’s tensions to uncover the perpetrator and bring closure to a desperate village.
First publish date: June 1940
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Arthur William Upfield
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