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The House of Cain

Arthur W. Upfield

The House of Cain

Upfield's first published novel 1929: 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 refuge for murderers in the far north-east corner of South Australia, and together the Sherwoods set out to find her and bring her back to Melbourne…

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The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery

Arthur W. Upfield

The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery

Melbourne during the depression. A seedy, corrupt city. Someone has struck at the heart of Australia's soul: they have killed the horse that would have won the Melbourne Cup. For what motive? Profit, blackmail, a betting scam? Only Tom Pink, the rider of the murdered horse can find out. Tom, born into the underworld he now tries to defeat, exposes graft and blackmail that reaches to the upper echelons of Melbourne society. His life and the...

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The Gifts of Frank Cobbold

Arthur W. Upfield

The Gifts of Frank Cobbold

This biography of Frank Cobbold opens when Frank goes to sea on a Clipper aged 14. It follows him through inexperience as a Fijian trader who escaped the cannibals' cook pot and survived one of the worst hurricanes in living memory. In Australia he learned the skills of a surveyor and quickly became a sought-after and trusted station manager. Despite problems that would have defeated a less resolute man he took droughts, cheats and unyielding land tenure regulations in his stride to become...

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The Devil's Steps

Arthur W. Upfield

The Devil's Steps

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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… The complex half-caste Bony is, I think, my favourite fictional detective of the past twenty years. – Anthony Boucher, The...

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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 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, an animal as mean as its owner, came home riderless, no one cared. And no one cared when no trace of the man could be found. But five months later, Detective-Inspector Bonaparte is called in – and he is determined to solve the mystery. With his usual tenacity he takes up the cold trail. What happened to Anderson, to his hat, to his stockwhip, to his horse's neck-rope? Bony must...

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The Beach of Atonement

Arthur W. Upfield

The Beach of Atonement

This is the story of a man who shot his wife's lover and thus created a memory which wrecked his own life. Arnold Dudley loved his wife and killed the man who stole her from him. Hunted by justice, pursued by bitter remorse, he fled to a stretch of beach on the Australian coast and lived in utter loneliness. When almost driven to madness by the solitude, he meets two women, who strive to re-build his broken life… First published in 1930, by the creator of Bony, the...

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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 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 wasn't alcohol… This is an unusual crime story for Upfield, but, revealing the vast...

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The Barrakee Mystery

Arthur W. Upfield

The Barrakee Mystery

Why was King Henry, an aboriginal from Western Australia, killed in New South Wales? What was the feud that led to murder after nineteen long years had passed? Who was the woman who saw the murder and kept silent? This first story of Inspector Bonaparte takes him to the Darling River bush country where he encounters those problems he understands so well – mixed blood and divided loyalties. 'Rampageous fisticuffs, rough scenery and...

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The Barrakee Mystery

Arthur W. Upfield

The Barrakee Mystery

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The Bachelors of Broken Hill

Arthur W. Upfield

The Bachelors of Broken Hill

When two elderly bachelors were poisoned with cyanide, a strange woman was on the scene each time – but now she has disappeared, leaving no trace. Tracking her down in a town of twenty-eight thousand people is a job to tax even Detective Inspector Bonaparte's powers. He will need the unorthodox assistance of burglar Jimmy the Screwsman and a lightning-sketch artist, as well as all the deductive and tracking skills at his command, as he trails a killer no-one has seen…

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The Bachelors of Broken Hill

Arthur W. Upfield

The Bachelors of Broken Hill

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Murder Must Wait

Arthur W. Upfield

Murder Must Wait

In the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, four babies have been stolen – all boys, all under three months old, and all apparently neglected by their mothers. The local police have given up and the trail is cold. Then a fifth child vanishes, and the mother is found dead next to the empty cot. Inspector Bonaparte is called in, first to find the missing children, and only then to solve the murder… Bony – a unique figure among top-flight...

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Murder Must Wait

Arthur W. Upfield

Murder Must Wait

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Mr Jelly's Business

Arthur W. Upfield

Mr Jelly's Business

Murder down under. The car lies wrecked and abandoned near the world's longest fence, the "rabbit-proof fence" in the wheat belt of Western Australia. There is no sign of its owner. Has George Loftus simply decamped, for reasons of his own? Or was it murder? Bonaparte suspects the worst and is determined to find the body – and the murderer. This novel is filled with Upfield's own philosophy about what creates murderers. We also find...

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Mr Jelly's Business

Arthur W. Upfield

Mr Jelly's Business

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Man of Two Tribes

Arthur W. Upfield

Man of Two Tribes

Myra Thomas, apparently dressed only in nightgown and slippers, has walked off the train somewhere along the 650 kilometres of track that crosses the Nullarbor Plain. With two camels and a dog, Bony begins to search the desert in search of her. He finds more than he bargins for – only to find a group of people imprisoned in the extensive limestone caves beneath the desert plain… This is surely one of the two or three strangest of Upfield's novels. It is an...

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Man of Two Tribes

Arthur W. Upfield

Man of Two Tribes

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Madman's Bend

Arthur W. Upfield

Madman's Bend

If any man was ever born to be murdered, it was William Lush – a hated drunk who disappeared after beating his wife to death. Plenty of men had the opportunity to murder Lush, some the means, none the motive. Jill Madden, his pretty step-daughter, had all three… When Lush disappears, Inspector Bonaparte must look for a body – and the murderer – before the Darling River rises to flood level… This novel is one of Upfield's major accomplishments… Bony's...

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Madman's Bend

Arthur W. Upfield

Madman's Bend

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Gripped By Drought

Arthur W. Upfield

Gripped By Drought

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 of his huge Australian sheep-farm, but also with a loveless and unhappy marriage. For Frank Mayne, master of well-nigh a million-acre sheep station, life assumed its most dreary aspect. No rain for his farm, a wife who involved him in an orgy of spending and entertainment, and with disaster...

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Death of a Swagman

Arthur W. Upfield

Death of a Swagman

A cypher that looked like a child's game of noughts-and-crosses; a strip of hessian bag; the rhythmic clanging sound of the turning windmill suddenly breaking the silence of the night; the minister who seemed out of place as a churchman: these were some of the more puzzling aspects of the case of the murdered swagman noticed by the keen eyes of Robert Burns, alias Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, alias "Bony". Our distinctive student...

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