Penulis: Arthur W. Upfield

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, le …

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 …

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 …

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 poli …

Bony is happy to take on a little informal investigation during his vacation in Western Australian, after a farmer suddenly disappears near a huge wheat field. Despite the lack of evidence, Bony susp …

By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-timer Karl Mueller is roused from his drink-sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees on w …

Three times a killer has struck at daybreak, a small town in Western Australia. What is the connection between these three very differently executed killings? Why is the local aborigine tribe always …

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called to the drought-stricken outback for this, his latest case. At a desolate sheep station two men have been savagely beaten to death and it’s Bony’s job …

At first it seems obvious that Old Fren Yorky had murdered Mrs. Bell; several of his footprints are identified near the body and is known to have been nearby at the time of the crime. But to find him …

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 al …

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 som …

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 …

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 purpos …

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 an …

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 …

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 foun …

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 elem …

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 agonisi …

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 …

In an isolate hut not far from the sleepy country town of Merino, stockman George Kendall is found dead – and it looks very much like murder. Six weeks later Bony arrives incognita at Merino and prov …

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 the Burning Water tests Inspector Bonaparte’s endurance …

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 …

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 …

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 Austr …

Myra Thomas, apparently dressed only in nightgown and slippers, has walked off the train somewhere along the 650 kilometres of track that crosses the Nullabor Plain. With two camels and a dog, Bony b …

Good-looking Marvin Rhudder came home from college on a long summer vacation. The day it ended he raped Rose Jukes… Thirteen years later, after a long series of sex crimes, he returns to Timbertown …

A body has been found in a meteor crater in the middle of the Australian desert, with no hint of how it got there. No tracks around the crater and no stranger in town. It soon becomes obvious to Bony …

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 …

On a calm October day in an Australian seaside town, three met set out to sea for a day’s fishing… and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace or the men or their boat is founds, until …

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 bo …

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 …

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 s …

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 …

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 …

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 th …

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 b …

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 B …

A biography of Arthur Upfield as told to Jessica Hawke with an introduction by Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Here is Arthur Upfield’s own story, the author of those remarkable murder myster …

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 t …

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 Wi …

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 w …

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 know …

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 know …

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, p …

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, …

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 know …

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 …

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 …

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 an …

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 wa …

To observe a ridge of sandhills was to wonder what lay beyond them… Perhaps it was the sense of freedom, both physically and spiritually, the knowledge that should I want to look beyond the sandhil …

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 Austr …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 s …

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 …

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 bo …

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 som …

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 purpos …

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 s …

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 …

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 w …

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 int …

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 …

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 w …

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 elem …

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 agonisi …

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 b …

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 al …

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 …

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 …

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 t …

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 B …

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 th …

Erst Samuel Goldspink, dann Alfred Parsons, zuletzt Hans Gromberg: drei ältere Junggesellen, die in der Stadt Broken Hill durch Zyankali vergiftet wurden… Kriminalinspektor Napoleon Bonaparte, der …

Arthur Upfield is known internationally for his crime novels featuring Bony, the Aboriginal Detective. In these thirteen stories written for Walkabout magazine between 1934 and 1949 and published in …

On a signboard at Cobargo I read the magic word ‘Bermagui’. That’s the place Zane Grey wrote about, remarked my son. That’s the place I’m looking for, I decided. And what a place! Oh, what a place. T …

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 …

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 getöt …

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 …

»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 …

»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 ›Act …

Den Mordfall des Viehhirten George Kendall will Inspektor Napoleon Bonaparte, der berühmte ›Bony‹, wieder einmal auf seine eigene, unkonventionelle Weise lösen. Er taucht inkognito in dem Städtchen M …

»Vor sich sahen sie den ausgetrockneten, völlig platten Grund einer seichten Senke. Die Ufer dieses wasserlosen Sees waren aus weißem, betonhartem Lehm, der sich wie ein helles Band zu Füßen leuchten …

Den Mordfall des Viehhirten George Kendall will Inspektor Napoleon Bonaparte, der berühmte ›Bony‹, wieder einmal auf seine eigene, unkonventionelle Weise lösen. Er taucht inkognito in dem Städtchen M …

Um den Fall Marks aufzuklären, nahm Inspektor Bonaparte, der berühmte »Bony«, seinen Abschied bei der Kriminal-polizei von Queensland. Jetzt streift er inkognito durch Neusüdwales. Für die Polizei ga …

Für zwei mysteriöse Mode gibt es offensichtlich kein Motiv. Inspektor Napoleon Bonaparte, der berühmte Bony, ermittelt in diesem Fall als Tramp verkleidet. Da versetzt ein neuer Mordversuch die Leute …

Nur viermal im Jahr inspiziert ein Ingenieur vom Schifffahrtsamt den Leuchtturm auf Kap Split Point an der Sudkuste Australiens. Ein ideales Versteck für einen Toten, dachte der Mörder – und er beh …

Ein neuer Fall fur Inspektor Napoleon Bonaparte, genannt Bony. In einem australischen Kustenort herrscht erst Besorgnis, dann blankes Entsetzen, als die Barkasse »Do me« spurlos verschwindet und Ta …

»Die Vögel krächzten aufgeregt und flatterten zwischen den Zweigen hin und her, wagten aber in Anbetracht des sich rasch nähernden Flugzeuges nicht, ihr Versteck stürzte, sie duckten sich in die Zwei …

»Holen Sie mir den Vogel runder«, bat der alte Simpson. »Ich möchte seinen Hals zwischen meinen Fingern spüren.« Ein eprechender Kakadu und ein kauziger alter Mann im Rollstuhl empfangen Inspector Na …

»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 sc …

Während eines heftigen Regens verschwindet Jeffrey Anderson spurlos im australischen Busch. Die Suche nach ihm bleibt erfolglos, und schließlich wird Inspektor Napoleon Bonaparte eingeschaltet, um de …

»Es gibt drei Möglichkeiten: erstens, daß der Mord von Weißen begangen wurde; zweitens, daß der Mord von Schwarzen begangen wurde; und drittens, daß der Mord von Schwarzen und Weißen gemeinsam begang …

Bony und die Maus. In Daybreak, einem kleinen Ort mitten in Australien, geschich eine Reihe von Morden. Die Ermittlungen der Polizei blieben ergebnislos, bis sich Bony inkognito des Falles annimmt un …

Es ist Hochsommer im südlichen Hinterland Australiens. Der Wasserspiegel des Lake Otway sinkt unaufhaltsam, die Tiere flüchten aus dem Dürregebiet. Während die Naturkatastrophe ihren Lauf nimmt, trit …

»Ein nackter Arm hatte sie umfaßt und hochgehoben. Sie öffnete den Mund, um zu schreien, da wurde ihr Gesicht grob gegen eine schweißige Brust gedrückt, und nun was es für Linda nicht mehr ein Tag wi …

Während die Männer unterwegs sind, geschieht in der Mount Eden-Farm in Südaustralien ein abscheuliches Verbrechen. Mrs. Bell, die Haushälterin, wird ermordet, und ihre Tochter, die sieben Jahre alte …

Als der Schafzüchter John Downer und sein Sohn Eric zurückkommen auf ihre Farm, ist der Arbeiter Carl Brandt spurlos verschwunden. Statt dessen entdecken die beiden einen Toten, den sie noch nie zuvo …

Kein Fremder darf es wagen, das südaustralische Tal zu betreten, in dem die Nachkommen einer irischen Gangsterbande hausen. Nur Inspektor Napoleon Bonaparte ist kühn genug, sich unter falschem Namen …

Arthur W. Upfield gehört zu jenen Autoren, die von den Geschöpfen ihrer dichterischen Phantasie an Popularität weit übertroffen werden. Wer weiß schon, daß er der geistige Vater des berühmten Inspekt …

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 …

Der berühmte Meteorologe Wickham ist den Behördeb ein Dorn im Auge. Kein Wunder, daß man nach seinem Tod munkelt, er sei aus politischen Gründen ermordet worden. Kriminalinspektor Napoleon Bonaparte …

Marvin Rhudder, der nach Verbüßung einer Zuchthausstrafe einen Raubüberfall begangen hat, wird steckbrieflich gesucht. Seine Freundin führt Bony zu einer Höhle. Dort findet er Rhudder – tot. War es M …

Mr. Jelly sammelt Fotos von Mördern. Die Wände seines Zimmers sind voll davon. Mehrmals im Jahr verreist er. Ganz plötzlich. Und niemand weiß, warum. Mick Landon kommt schließlich hinter Mr. Jellys G …

‘Comment diable sommes-nous ainsi passes, a l”etourdie, a cote des aventures de Napoleon Bonaparte, dit Bony?’ Jean-Luc Porquet, Canard Enchaine …

‘Comment diable sommes-nous ainsi passes, a l”etourdie, a cote des aventures de Napoleon Bonaparte, dit Bony?’ Jean-Luc Porquet, Canard Enchaine …

Das Haus der Answerths in der Umgebung des australischen Stadtchens Edison ist den Nachbarn nicht geheuer. Und auch die Answerths selbst sind sonderbare Zeitgenossen. Alle Geruchte scheinen sich zu b …

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 Bona …

Au plus profond du bush australien, une jeune femme a été sauvagement assassinée. Sa petite fille a disparu. Qui est le meurtrier ? Un vieux vagabond à moitié fou, que tout semble désigner? Pour trou …

Les meurtres se succèdent à Daybreak, petit bourg d”Australie-Occidentale. Mais comment trouver le coupable sans mobile apparent ni preuve convaincante? La police, bredouille, appelle l”inspecteur …

‘L’inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte est un gentleman, courtois avec les dames. Il roule ses cigarettes à la main. Il est aussi malin que Sherlock Holmes. Surtout, fils d’un père blanc et d’une mère abor …

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 t …

Une fois encore, l’inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte se retrouve confronté à urie affaire des plus étranges qui parviendra un moment à le désorienter. De mystérieux enlèvements de bébés ont été signalés …

« Natif de Corse, Napoléon Bonaparte ? Pensez-vous ! Excellent cavalier, ‘Bony’ sillonne le bush australien dans de longues traques contre les criminels. Son seul credo : protéger les gens contre ‘la …

‘Moitié blanc et moitié aborigène, le détective Napoléon Bonaparte (Bony pour les intimes) enquête dans le bush australien. Tony Hillerman a reconnu dans son ‘père’, l’écrivain Arthur Upfield, le pio …

Ce n’est pas la première fois que l’inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte doit arracher au Livre de la Brousse des indices qui lui permettront d’élucider un meurtre. Ce n’est pas la première fois non plus qu …

L’Australie déploie ses paysages somptueux de roc et de sable dans cette nouvelle enquête de Napoléon Bonaparte, I’inspecteur sangmêlé créé par Arthur Upfield, un policier bien étrange en vérité, qui …

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 point …

In the remote Australian outback, a sinister killer known as the Strangler terrorizes the small town of Carie. When the local police fail to catch the culprit, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte …