A cat... a ping-pong ball... a drunken gardener... With these slight clues to go on Detective-Inspector Bonaparte investigates the mysterious death of famous author, Mervyn Blake, who dies an
agonising death late one night in his writing room. But how did he die? No one knows. No one that is until Bony’s acute observation of human nature uncovers the murderer - and the method used
to kill Blake. One of the few Bonaparte mysteries not set in the outback, An Author Bites the Dust reveals the author as his best and most ingenious.