Серия "Inspector Bonaparte Mysteries"

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 &apos;stills&apos; has been murdered, and it&apos;s Bony&apos;s job to find the killer. Disguised as a horse-thief, the Aboriginal detective hitch-hikes into the valley to meet a lawless lot…<br /> <br /><i>Written by Upfield while living in Bowral, Cork Valley is actually Robertson.</i><br /> <br...

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 &apos;stills&apos; has been murdered, and it&apos;s Bony&apos;s job to find the killer. Disguised as a horse-thief, the Aboriginal detective hitch-hikes into the valley to meet a lawless lot…<br /> <br /><i>Written by Upfield while living in Bowral, Cork Valley is actually Robertson.</i><br /> <br...

Three times a killer has struck in Daybreak, a one-pub town in Western Australia. Why should so many people suspect the strange &apos;bad boy&apos; Tony Carr? Why were the local Aboriginal tribe far away from town at the time of the murders? Inspector Bonaparte finds this small community very tight, till the arrival of a job-seeking bloke by the name of Nat Bonnar…<br /> <br /><i>Though lacking in some of the tightness that characterises Upfield&apos;s strongest books, this...

Three times a killer has struck in Daybreak, a one-pub town in Western Australia. Why should so many people suspect the strange &apos;bad boy&apos; Tony Carr? Why were the local Aboriginal tribe far away from town at the time of the murders? Inspector Bonaparte finds this small community very tight, till the arrival of a job-seeking bloke by the name of Nat Bonnar…<br /> <br /><i>Though lacking in some of the tightness that characterises Upfield&apos;s strongest books, this...

By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-time Karl Mueller is roused from his drink-sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees on waking (or thinks he sees) is enough to make him stiffen with fear, and more than enough to worry the police into calling for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.<br /> <br />The disturber of Mueller&apos;s rest is Marvin Rhudder – once an outstanding theological student, now a convicted rapist...

By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-time Karl Mueller is roused from his drink-sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees on waking (or thinks he sees) is enough to make him stiffen with fear, and more than enough to worry the police into calling for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.<br /> <br />The disturber of Mueller&apos;s rest is Marvin Rhudder – once an outstanding theological student, now a convicted rapist...

Deep in Australia&apos;s outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Ole Fren Yorky, a crazy wanderer, is known to have been in the area, and his footprints have been identified near the body. When he too disappears, even the Aboriginal trackers are baffled. Bony&apos;s approach changes everything…<br /> <br /><i>It becomes one of Bony&apos;s great adventures… He pictures the merits of Aboriginal society. And he uses weather – in this case the threatening rising...

Deep in Australia&apos;s outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Ole Fren Yorky, a crazy wanderer, is known to have been in the area, and his footprints have been identified near the body. When he too disappears, even the Aboriginal trackers are baffled. Bony&apos;s approach changes everything…<br /> <br /><i>It becomes one of Bony&apos;s great adventures… He pictures the merits of Aboriginal society. And he uses weather – in this case the threatening rising...

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.<br />But how did he die? No one knows. No one that is until Bony&apos;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, reveals Upfield at his best and...

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.<br />But how did he die? No one knows. No one that is until Bony&apos;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, reveals Upfield at his best and...