The Barrakee Mystery: The Lure of the Bush

By Arthur W. Upfield and Arthur Upfield (Introduction by Nicholas Litchfield)

Book Overview

When a gaunt white man appears at the Barrakee, no one could know that he would create a series of events resulting in not only murder, but the settling of an old debt...The Thorntons own Barrakee... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1922384704
• ISBN13: 9781922384706
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: ETT Imprint
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Too flawed by 1930's racism to stomach

While it may have been "progressive" to feature a mixed race aborigine as a detective in the 30's the main mystery focuses on a character's innate racial tendencies emerging from their surface layer of civilization as he turns adult and can't escape the destiny of his mixed race DNA. Upfield has a strong reputation- I am really hoping that he came to his senses in later books