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Arthur W. Upfield
Full Series List in Order
An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery
1 - The Barrakee Mystery // The Lure of the Bush (1928)2 - The Beach of Atonement (1930)
3 - The Sands of Windee (1931)
4 - A Royal Abduction (1932)
5 - Gripped by Drought (1932)
6 - Wings Above the Diamantina (1937)
7 - Murder Down Under // Mr. Jelly's Business (1937)
8 - Winds of Evil (1937)
9 - The Bone Is Pointed (1938)
10 - The Mystery of Swordfish Reef (1939)
11 - Bushranger of the Skies // No Footprints in the Bush (1940)
12 - Death of a Swagman (1946)
13 - Devil's Steps (1948)
14 - An Author Bites the Dust (1948)
15 - The Widows of Broome (1951)
16 - The Mountains Have a Secret (1952)
17 - The New Shoe (1952)
18 - Venom House (1953)
19 - Murder Must Wait (1953)
20 - Death of a Lake (1954)
21 - Cake in the Hat Box // Sinister Stones (1955)
22 - Battling Prophet (1956)
23 - The Man of Two Tribes (1956)
24 - Bony Buys a Woman // The Bushman Who Came Back (1957)
25 - The Bachelors of Broken Hill (1958)
26 - Bony and the Black Virgin // Journey to the Hangman (1959)
27 - Bony and the Mouse (1959)
28 - Bony and the Kelly Gang // Valley of Smugglers (1960)
29 - Bony and the White Savage (1961)
30 - The Will of the Tribe (1962)
31 - Madman's Bend (1963)
32 - The Lake Frome Monster (1966)
Book List in Order: 40 titles
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The Barrakee Mystery // The Lure of the Bush
- 1928
- / Law Enforcement
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This enchanting book allows fans to project their favorite scenes from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them films at home with a flashlight. Using black line illustrations on framed acetate pages, this enchanting book allow...
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The Beach of Atonement
- 1930
- / Law Enforcement
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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 b...
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The Sands of Windee
- 1931
- / Law Enforcement
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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...
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Gripped by Drought
- 1932
- / Law Enforcement
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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 ...
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A Royal Abduction
- 1932
- / Law Enforcement
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Arthur Upfield, creator of the Aboriginal detective 'Bony' followed his classic crime novel The Sands of Windee with this historical romance: The Crown Prince of Rolandia is visiting Australia - and two brilliant Americans, Earle Lawrence and ...
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Murder Down Under // Mr. Jelly's Business
- 1937
- / Police Procedural
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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...
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Winds of Evil
- 1937
- / Law Enforcement
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WINDS OF EVIL The incomparable Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is back -- and now he must solve one of his most baffling cases. When Bony sets out to investigate two bizarre murders at Wirragatta Station deep in the Australian outback, all th...
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Wings Above the Diamantina
- 1937
- / Law Enforcement
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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 ...
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The Bone Is Pointed
- 1938
- / Police Procedural
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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 mo...
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The Mystery of Swordfish Reef
- 1939
- / Police Procedural
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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 ...
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Bushranger of the Skies // No Footprints in the Bush
- 1940
- / Police Procedural
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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 en...
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Death of a Swagman
- 1946
- / Law Enforcement
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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 s...
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An Author Bites the Dust
- 1948
- / Law Enforcement
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AN AUTHOR BITES THE DUST Although used to dealing in character assassination and verbal backstabbing, the literary clique gathered at the house party of Mervyn Blake, famous author and critic, is shocked when their host is found dead in his writing r...
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Devil's Steps
- 1948
- / Law Enforcement
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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 characteris...
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The Widows of Broome
- 1951
- / Law Enforcement
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Broome is a little sun-drenched town on the barren north-west coast of Australia, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business, where all the little bungalows might be glass for all the secrets they hide. How then had the murderer ...
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The Mountains Have a Secret
- 1952
- / Law Enforcement
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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 st...
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The New Shoe
- 1952
- / Law Enforcement
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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 w...
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Murder Must Wait
- 1953
- / Law Enforcement
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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...
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Venom House
- 1953
- / Law Enforcement
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The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House - perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's becau...
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Death of a Lake
- 1954
- / Law Enforcement
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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 mur...
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Cake in the Hat Box // Sinister Stones
- 1955
- / Police Procedural
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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 fo...
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Battling Prophet
- 1956
- / Law Enforcement
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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 dri...
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The Man of Two Tribes
- 1956
- / Police Procedural
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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 fi...
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Bony Buys a Woman // The Bushman Who Came Back
- 1957
- / Police Procedural
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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 tra...
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The Bachelors of Broken Hill
- 1958
- / Police Procedural
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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 Bo...
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Bony and the Black Virgin // Journey to the Hangman
- 1959
- / Law Enforcement
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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...
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Bony and the Mouse
- 1959
- / Police Procedural
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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 Bonapart...
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Bony and the Kelly Gang // Valley of Smugglers
- 1960
- / Police Procedural
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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-...
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Bony and the White Savage
- 1961
- / Police Procedural
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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 stif...
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The Will of the Tribe
- 1962
- / Law Enforcement
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THE WILL OF THE TRIBE In Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte's latest case, the body of a white man has been found in a meteor crater in the middle of an Australian desert, with no hint of how it got there. No one in the nearest town has reported seeing a s...
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Madman's Bend
- 1963
- / Police Procedural
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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, ha...
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The Lake Frome Monster
- 1966
- / Law Enforcement
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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 g...
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Up and Down Australia Again: More Short Stories
- Feb-2010
- / General Fiction
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Up and Down Australia Again is the third published collection of short works by Arthur Upfield. Kees de Hoog has selected 34 more short stories and has added a radio play and the first five chapters for an unfinished Bony novel. As well as tales from...
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The Clue of the New Shoe
- Nov-2010
- / General Fiction
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The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the South-East Coast of Australia. Investigating the crime Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-aborigine detective, wonders why a coffin is moved at night, ...
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Breakaway House
- Sep-2012
- / Mystery
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Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway Ho...
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Up and Down Australia
- Jun-2016
- / General Fiction
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Arthur William Upfield is well known as the creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) who features in 29 crime detection novels, most set in the Australian outback. It is not well known that he also wrote about 250 short stories and ar...
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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, t...
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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 w...
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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...