Arthur W. Upfield

An extraordinary case for Detective-Inspector Napolean Bonaparte opens when a police car is bombed from the air on a lonely outback road.....

Why was the redoubtable King Henry, an aborigine from Western Australia, killed during a thunderstorm in New South Wales?....

Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care....

An intriguing case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside town. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing ... and do not return....

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....

In an isolated hut not far from the sleepy country town of Merino, stockman George Kendall is found dead and it looks very much like murder....

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....

A powerful story of Australia's great sheep farms from one of our greatest writers....

Deep in Australia's outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Yorky, one of the locals and a crazy wanderer, is known to have been in the area, and his footprints have been identified near the body....

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called to the drought-stricken outback for this, his latest case....

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte leaves his familiar outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort on special assignment for Military Intelligence....

Dans l'Australie des années 30, la nature, aride et sauvage, impose sa loi aux habitants de l'exploitation du lac Otway qui est en train de mourir lentement sous l'effet d'une sécheresse implacable et d'une chaleur extrême.

Among the 28,000 inhabitants of Broken Hill there stalks a killer. Already two elderly bachelors have died horribly from cyanide poisoning....

On a deserted dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep has been abandoned...enter Inspector Bonaparte. 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....

The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of "Venom House"....

Mr. Jelly's Business is one of the finest of Arthur Upfield's many distinguished stories about the career of Detective-Inspector Napoleon ("Bony") Bonaparte....

The discovery of the stolen red monoplane on the dry, flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things to many people....

The incomparable Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is back - and now he must solve one of his most baffling cases....

During a state visit to Australia in 1928, Her Royal Highness Princess Natalie, heiress to the throne of Rolandia, is abducted from the transcontinental train at Cook on the Nullarbor Plain by a gang led by two brilliant Americans, Earle Lawrence and Van Horton....

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....