252 pages. The back and front end paper have loud sticky tape stains at the head and tail's outer edge, caused by a protective plastic cover. The pages are tanned, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. ""An intriguing case for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside town near Bermagui. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing ... and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing fishermen. It is quite clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol bullet. But by whom, and why, is for Bony to find out. " An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mystery by Arthur Upfield.