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Both Australia and Arthur W. Upfield (1890-1964) matured together. At the start of the last century, Upfield emigrated to Australia as that nation was gaining independence and identity. The Gallipoli…
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In the world of crime fiction, Arthur W. Upfield stands among the giants. His detective-inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, is one of the most memorable of all crime fighters. Upfield was an…
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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…
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An extraordinary case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte opens when a police car is bombed from the air on a lonely outback road by a mysterious pilot who plans to conquer…
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Three men set out from a small Australian seaside town for an ordinary day’s fishing–and simply vanish. There are no clues to their fate, until another fisherman hauls in a…
The incomparable Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is back and now he must solve one of his most baffling cases.
Originally serialised in 1933; a year after the mysterious death of Phar Lap, winner of the 1930 Melbourne Cup; this is a previously lost Australian crime classic. It is the…
Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte leaves his familiar outback environment for a special assignment for Military Intelligence.
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…
Among the 28,000 inhabitants of Broken Hill there stalks a killer. Already two elderly bachelors have died horribly from cyanide poisoning. Now, two months later, Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte faces…
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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…
Deep in Australia’s outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Yorky, one of the locals and a crazy wanderer, is known to have been in the area, and…
Tucked away in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is Cork Valley, inhabited by hard-drinking Irishmen. Here an Excise Officer looking for illicit whiskey ‘stills’ has been murdered, and…
Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the…
TRADE EDITION: The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the South-East Coast of Australia. Investigating the crime Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte…
A Golden Age mystery, from the incomparable Arthur Upfield. Arthur Upfield was the first non-American to be awarded full membership of the Mystery. Writers Guild of America. Among the 28,000…
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…
Arthur Upfield, creator of the Aboriginal detective ‘Bony’ followed his classic crime novel The Sands of Windee with this historical romance.
The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the South-East Coast of Australia. Investigating the crime Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-aborigine…
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…
By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, Karl Mueller is roused from his drink-sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees…
Detective Inspector Bonaparte is called to the outback for his latest case. At a desolate sheep station, two men have been savagely beaten to death. Clues to the murderer’s identity…
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…
Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte agrees to help a colleague in the matter of the disappearance of George Loftus, a farmer whose car was found abandoned near the world’s longest fence, in…
Murder is a serious business - but for once it had to take second place…
In the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, five babies had been stolen -…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
