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The Murchison Murders

Arthur W. Upfield

The Murchison Murders

Somewhere within Arthur Upfield's travelling dray were the clues to uncovering three acts of murder involving the grifter, Snowy Rowles. Once Upfield had published his crime thriller, The Sands of Windee, West Australian police gave chase, starting with the esteemed author of Bony…

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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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Death of a Lake

Arthur W. Upfield

Death of a Lake

Eight hundred kilometres from the sea, 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 it was an accident, or was it murder? As the water level drops, five men and two women wait beside the shrinking lake – for the body, the money, or neither. And watching it all, Bony… Death of a Lake is as intense and unremitting story as Upfield...

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Death of a Lake

Arthur W. Upfield

Death of a Lake

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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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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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Death of a Swagman

Arthur W. Upfield

Death of a Swagman

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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 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 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… There are sand storms galore,...

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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… All in all, this is a high suspense drama, and a fine Upfield story. – From The Spirit...

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