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An Author Bites the Dust

Arthur W. Upfield

An Author Bites the Dust

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, reveals Upfield at his best and...

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An Author Bites the Dust

Arthur W. Upfield

An Author Bites the Dust

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Bony and the Black Virgin

Arthur W. Upfield

Bony and the Black Virgin

When Inspector Bonaparte is called to the drought-stricken outback sheep station he finds that two men have been savagely beaten to death. Clues are scarce in this sun-baked, sand-blown country, but Bony's understanding of the bush and the people who live there – both black and white – leads him inexorably towards the killer… When Upfield gets down to the point of interracial sexual relations, he in effect is writing on one of the topics closest to his...

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Bony and the Black Virgin

Arthur W. Upfield

Bony and the Black Virgin

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Bony and the Kelly Gang

Arthur W. Upfield

Bony and the Kelly Gang

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 it's Bony's job to find the killer. Disguised as a horse-thief, the Aboriginal detective hitch-hikes into the valley to meet a lawless lot… Written by Upfield while living in Bowral, Cork Valley is actually Robertson. <br...

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The Battling Prophet

Arthur W. Upfield

The Battling Prophet

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate weather forecasts had helped farmers all over Australia, lived nearby.Ben died after a three-week drinking binge and a doctor certified death as due to delirium tremens – but Bony's host insists that whatever Ben died of it was alcohol…

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The Bone is Pointed

Arthur W. Upfield

The Bone is Pointed

Jeffrey Anderson was a big man with a foul temper – a sadist and an ugly drunk. When his horse The Black Emperor came home riderless, no one cared. No one cared when no trace of the man could be found. Five months later, Inspector Bonaparte is called in to follow the cold case. What had happened to Anderson, his hat, his stock-whip, to his horse's neck-rope. The locals, black and white, are keeping their own secrets and Bony second-guessing…

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The Devil's Steps

Arthur W. Upfield

The Devil's Steps

On special assignment with Military Intelligence, Detective-Inspector Bonaparte leaves his familiar Australian outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort. Although out of his element with city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues in the search for a wily killer…

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The Lake Frome Monster

Arthur W. Upfield

The Lake Frome Monster

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 attacked by the rogue camel known as The Lake Frome Monster. But camels don't carry guns… and Maidstone had a bullet-hole in his chest which put the Monster in the clear. So who killed young Maidstone? Bony, disguised as a worker on the Fence, intends to find out…

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Bony and the Kelly Gang

Arthur W. Upfield

Bony and the Kelly Gang

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Bony and the Mouse

Arthur W. Upfield

Bony and the Mouse

Three times a killer has struck in Daybreak, a one-pub town in Western Australia. Why should so many people suspect the strange 'bad boy' 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… Though lacking in some of the tightness that characterises Upfield's strongest books, this...

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Bony and the Mouse

Arthur W. Upfield

Bony and the Mouse

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Bony and the White Savage

Arthur W. Upfield

Bony and the White Savage

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. The disturber of Mueller's rest is Marvin Rhudder – once an outstanding theological student, now a convicted rapist...

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Bony and the White Savage

Arthur W. Upfield

Bony and the White Savage

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The Mountains Have a Secret

Arthur W. Upfield

The Mountains Have a Secret

In the Grampian Mountains, two girl hitch-hikers have disappeared without trace, and the policeman sent to investigate has been murdered. Bonaparte visits the lonely hotel where the girls were last seen, and meets up with the suave proprietor, his strangely terrified father, an ex-US paratrooper with a penchant for knife-throwing, and a talking parrot…

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The Mystery of Swordfish Reef

Arthur W. Upfield

The Mystery of Swordfish Reef

On a calm October day in an Australian seaside town, three met set out to sea for a day's fishing… and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace or the men or their boat is founds, until weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch – the head of one of the missing fishermen. It is clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol shot, but by whom, and why, is for Bony to find out.

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The New Shoe

Arthur W. Upfield

The New Shoe

The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the south-east coast of Australia. Inspector Bonaparte wonders why a coffin is moved at night, who was the girl struggling with Dick Lake on the cliff tops, and what caused the Bully Buccaneers to deal in death. An ordinary policeman could afford to fail, but Bony, never…

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Bony Buys a Woman

Arthur W. Upfield

Bony Buys a Woman

Deep in Australia'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's approach changes everything… It becomes one of Bony's great adventures… He pictures the merits of Aboriginal society. And he uses weather – in this case the threatening rising...

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Bony Buys a Woman

Arthur W. Upfield

Bony Buys a Woman

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Bushranger of the Skies

Arthur W. Upfield

Bushranger of the Skies

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 a nation. The trail through the land of burning waters tests Bony's endurance to the limit and takes the detective as close to death as he has ever been. Welcome to Central Australia! This is surely one of Upfield's strongest books. It is filled with various kinds of symbolism...

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Bushranger of the Skies

Arthur W. Upfield

Bushranger of the Skies

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Cake in the Hat Box

Arthur W. Upfield

Cake in the Hat Box

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. Enter Inspector Bonaparte, who soon realizes that he is not alone in his search for the criminal. The local Aboriginal tribe is seeking vengeance too… Fascinating in its treatment of outback life, and reveals clearly the weakness Bony has for young women and for people in the cattle stations who have...

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The Will of the Tribe

Arthur W. Upfield

The Will of the Tribe

A body has been found in a meteor crater in the middle of the Australian desert, with no hint of how it got there. No tracks around the crater and no stranger in town. It soon becomes obvious to Bony that both the locals and the Aboriginals are guarding a secret – until the will of the Tribe breaks their silence…

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Winds of Evil

Arthur W. Upfield

Winds of Evil

When Bonaparte sets out to investigate two bizarre murders near the dusty little outback town of Carie, all the odds are against him. The crimes were committed a year before, the scent cold, and any clues that may have survived have been confused by a ham-fisted city policeman. As Bony follows the trail he is threatened, then attacked by the mysterious murderer…

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