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Arthur W. Upfield
Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiance, Martin Sherwood, goes blind from shock. His famous adventuring brother Monty, learns that Austilene is in a…
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Often described as one of Upfield’s strongest novels, this crime story is set in the caves beneath the Nullabor Plain and around the secret test base at Maralinga. Bony has…
The Aborigines, who knew how many eagles flew over their inland desert, must have known who put the dead white man into Lucifer’s Couch. But no one in Hall’s Creek…
When Eric Maidstone was found dead near Bore Ten, just west of the Dingo-proof Fence, the first thought of those who discovered his body was that he might have been…
Why was the redoubtable King Henry, an aborigine from Western Australia, killed during a thunderstorm in New South Wales? What was the feud that led to murder after nineteen long…
A mystery featuring Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. When two young women hiking in the mountains vanish without a trace and a policeman sent to investigate is found shot, it is up…
Lake Otway is dying. Heat, drought, and thirst-crazed animals take their toll. When Ray Gillen, lucky lottery winner, went for a swim one night and never came back, some thought…
If any man was ever born to be murdered, that man was William Lush ? a hated drunk, who disappeared after beating his wife to death.
Plenty of men had…
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery. In an isolated hut not far from the sleepy country town of Merino, stockman George Kendall is found dead and it looks very much like murder…
Ben Wickham, a famous meteorologist whose uncannily accurate forecasts have helped famers and graziers all over Australia, has died after a three-week drinking bout. The doctor certifies that his death…
Broome is a small, sun-drenched town on the barren northwest coast of Australia. It’s small enough that everyone knows everyone else’s business. How, then, did someone murder two widows in…
The discovery of the stolen red monoplane on the dry, flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things to many people.
For Elizabeth Nettlefold, the chance to nurse its strangely…
Sinister stones …
On a lonely dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep is found. In it is Constable Stenhouse - shot dead. His Aboriginal tracker has disappeared and…
A powerful story of Australia’s great sheep farms. Gripped By Drought is a powerful story of a man’s battle not only with the elements of nature which threatened the ruin…
Daybreak is a one-horse, one-pub town deep in the Western Australian outback. The close-knit community has been left in shock by a string of murders, with little visible connection between…
The inimitable Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on an island amidst treacherous waters. Venom House, the Answerth family mansion that is haunted by ghosts of aborigines, is playing host to a…
The incomparable Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is back - and now he must solve one of his most baffling cases.
When Bony sets out to investigate two bizarre murders at…
The police never notice the small detail in the background of a police photograph of an abandoned car. A detail that tells Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte plainly that the mysterious…
Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and…
