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The Barrakee Mystery
The Lure of the Bush
Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384461
2020-06-01
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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 rougher, dust-covered sheepmen and wanderers, dignified aboriginals, and so much interest and local colour. - Books and Bookmen


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The Sands of Windee

Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384454
2020-06-01
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Why had Luke Marks driven specially out to Windee? Had he been murdered or had he, as the local police believed, wandered away from his car and been overwhelmed in a dust-storm? When Bony noticed something odd in the background of a police photograph, he begins to piece together the secrets of the sands of Windee. Here is the original background to the infamous Snowy Rowles murder trial.
 
Napoleon Bonaparte my best detective. - Daily Mail


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Wings Above the Diamantina

Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384478
2020-06-01
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The discovery of a stolen red monoplane on the dry, flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things for different folks. For Elizabeth Nettlefold, the chance to nurse its strangely ill meant renewed purpose in life. For Dr Knowles, brilliant physician and town drunk, it meant the revival of a romantic dream. For some it meant a murder plan gone awry, and for Bonaparte, it meant one of the toughest cases of his career.
 
Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives. - BBC


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Mr Jelly's Business
Murder Down Under
Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384485
2020-06-01
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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 out a lot about Aboriginal tracking methods, as well as more information about Bony's family background. - Mysteries in Paradise


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Winds of Evil

Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384492
2020-06-01
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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 first threatened and then attacked by the mysterious murderer. It's a case that will tax his ingenuity to the limit... if he lives to see it through.
 
Excellent set up for a story, good cast of characters, perplexing confusion of suspects, and perceptive unravelling of tangled threads. - Kirkus Review


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The Bone is Pointed

Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384508
2020-06-01
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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 rely on his eyes and his wits to help him find the answers, for the local inhabitants, both black and white, are keeping their own secrets.
 
Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives - BBC


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The Mystery of Swordfish Reef

Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384515
2020-06-01
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An intriguing case for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside near Bermagui. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing... and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found, until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing fishermen. It is quite clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol shot. But by whom, and why, is for Bony to find out.
 
A thriller with a new kind of thrill. - Sheffield Morning Telegraph


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Bushranger of the Skies
No Footprints in the Bush
Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384522
2020-06-01
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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 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 - of religion, of clothes v nakedness, of action, of the fruits of love of white for aboriginal. Throughout the prose is rich, resonant, compelling. In this book are passages which are as rapid, graphic and enspiriting as in any other book. - from The Spirit of Australia by Ray Browne.


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Death of a Swagman

Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384539
2020-06-01
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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 of violence arrives incognito at Merino, in western New South Wales, and, as a first move, provokes the local sergeant to lock him up. The method in Bony's madness is that while serving a semi-detention sentence and being made to paint the police station, he wears the best of all disguises... Here again is a first-rate Upfield mystery, made warm by humour, by the background characters and his portrayal of the natural background scene. - The Age
 
Upfield at his best. - Adelaide News


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Bony und der Bumerang
(The Barrakee Mystery)
Arthur W. Upfield
9781922698919
2023-04-01
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Vor vielen Jahren verschwand King Henry spurlos aus Barrakee. Warum? Niemand weiß es.
Plötzlich kehrt er zurück - und wird ermordet. Warum? Niemand weiß es.
Aber das größte Rätsel: Wie wurde er getötet? Niemand weiß es.
Bis Bony kommt - Kriminalinspektor Napoleon Bonaparte...
Der Roman spielt in Australien.


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The Devil's Steps

Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384546
2020-06-01
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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 New York Times


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Der Pfad Des Teufels
(The Devil's Steps)
Arthur W. Upfield
9781923024366
2023-05-01
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»Bisker hatte den Eindruck, seine eigene Stimme aus wenigstens hundert Metern Entfernung zu hören. Er war bereits auf den Knien, als er sie sagen hörte: ›Was denn, was denn, Mr Rice! Hat es sie so schlimm erwischt?‹ Er drehte den Konstabler um und versagte sich dann jede weitere Bemerkung, als er mit starrem Blick auf das kleine runde Loch mitten in der Stirn des Polizisten sah, aus dem nun, in einem dünnen Rinnsal, sein Blut entwich.«
Bony Bonaparte in geheimer Mission: Als Urlauber hat sich der Inspektor in einem Hotel in der Nähe von Melbourne einquartiert. Doch schon bald erschüttern zwei Morde die friedvolle Ruhe. Ein Lederetui mit Filmen und seltsame Fußspuren vor dem Hotel führen Bony auf die Spur eines geheimnisvollen Verbrechens.


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Die Leute von nebenan
(An Author Bites the Dust)
Arthur W. Upfield
9781923024397
2023-10-01
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Inspector Bonaparte Mysteries 11

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Wieded einmal übernimmt Inspektor Bonaparte, der berühmte »Bony«, einen Kriminalfall, über den bereits Gras gewaschen ist: den rätselhaften Tod des Schriftsellers Mervyn Blake.
Zum Glück hatte Blake eine sehr neugierige Nachbarin, deren scharfen Augen nur wenig entging…
Arthur W. Upfield: geboren 1888 in England, wanderte nach Australien aus und bereiste per Anhalter diesen Kontinent. Seine dabe als Pelztierjäger, Schafzüchter, Goldsucher und Opalschürfer gewonnenen Erlebnisse fanden Eingang in 30 Kriminalromane. Hauptfigur ist der sympathische Inspektor Bonaparte, der mit faszinierender Findigkeit verzwickte Situationen und menschliche Probleme zu entwirren versteht.
Upfield starb 1964, und »Reclams Kriminalromanführer« meint zu seinem schriftstellerischen Lebenswerk: »Seine Krimis gehören zum Besten, was die australische Literatur zu bieten hat.«


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An Author Bites the Dust

Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384553
2020-06-01
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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 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 most ingenious.
 
Napoleon Bonaparte - my best detective. - Daily Express


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The Mountains Have a Secret

Arthur W. Upfield
9781922384393
2020-06-01
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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 of Australia by Ray Browne.
 
Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives - BBC

 

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