The Battling Prophet

Arthur W. Upfield

eBook - 2014

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate weather forecasts had helped farmers all over Australia, lived nearby.Ben died after a three-week drinking binge and a doctor certified death as due to delirium tremens—but Bony's host insists that whatever Ben died of it was alcohol...