Title: Beat not the bones
First published: 1952
Description: When colonial adminstrator David Warwick is found shot to death, the official verdict is suicide. Deep in dept, with a wife half his age still living in Australia, Warwick had been unable to meet his obligations and took the quickest way out. 

If only he hadn't written that last letter home..the one that sends his very young, very innocent wife to Papua to find out what really happened.
Subjects: Anthropologists, Australians, Fiction, Papuans, Crime Fiction, Edgar Award, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Papua new guinea, fiction
Places: Papua New Guinea
Time periods: A few years agter WWll