Arthur W Upfield
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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...
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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...
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It is in a harsh and eerie landscape - the crater formed by the meteor they called "The Stranger" - that another stranger is found... dead. In an area where the presence of every outsider is announced by the bush telegraph, how had this man passed unreported? Who was he? How had he died? 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...
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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,...
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Napoleon Bonaparte, a half-caste detective, investigates the death of a man in the Australian bush.
Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care. But Bony is determined to follow the cold trail and smoke out some answers.
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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 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...
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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 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....
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»Bony spürte eine warnende Kälte im Nacken und fuhr herum. Zwei Krähen schienen den Verstand verloren zu haben; sonst gab es nichts zu sehen. Er ging im Kreis um den Schacht herum und fand das große Loch, einsfünfzig im Durchmesser und ungefähr in der Mitte einer kahlen, flachen Platte aus Kalkstein. Hinter ihm bellte Lucy wütend. Wieder drehte er sich rasch um, und die Kälte in seinem Nacken wurde zu Eis.«
Bony sucht eine Frau, die spurlos...
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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 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...
10) Widows of Broome
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»Upfields Bony-Romane sind für mich bei weitem das interessanteste Produkt australischer Literatur. Und einige von ihnen... mit ihrer Mischung aus Land, Farmern, Eingeborenen, Mythen, Puzzle und ›Action‹ sind absolute Sternstunden des Kriminalromans.« - Gisbert Haefs, Krimijahrbuch 1990
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Wachtmeister Stenhouse hatte bei den Leuten im australischen Busch viele Feinde.
Deshalb zweifelt Inspektor Bonaparte daran, daß Stenhouse ausgerecgbet von seinem einzigen Freund ermordet wurde.
Aber die Tatsachen sprechen für sich, und alles deutet auf die Schuld des Fährtensuchers Jacky.
Bis »Bony« eine Entdeckung macht…
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Pour sa vingt-cinquième enquête, l'inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte s'immerge dans un monde qui lui est peu familier, celui des écrivains. Dogmes, rivalités, exclusions ... loin de se contenter de pointes assassines, la littérature fera un mort, et Bony dévoilera des talents qu'on ne lui imaginait pas, d'o il ressort que le flair aborigène mène à tout. Arthur Upfield se venge ici d'un milieu littéraire australien qui n'accueille pas volontiers...
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Huit volumes essentiels dans une collection (Grands Détectives) qui ne l'est pas moins. Huit romans signés Arthur Upfield, père d'un des flics les plus attachants du genre. Le dénommé Napoléon Bonaparte, Bony pour les intimes, est moitié blanc, moitié aborigène. Intuitif et méticuleux, il est également rompu aux astuces de la vie dans le bush et aux subtilités de l'interprétation des paysages grandioses de l'Australie (chaque roman se...
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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 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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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 Van Horton - abduct her on the trans-continental train on the Nullabor Plain. They hide her in caves near Eucla on the Great Australian Bight, until the search is called off and a ransom is arranged...
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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 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...
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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...
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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 articles, drawing on his experiences in the bush between 1911 and 1931. Up and Down Australia Again is the third published collection of Upfield's short works. Kees de Hoog has selected 34 short stories,...
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Upfield's first published novel 1929: Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiancé, 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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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 lives of...