Inspector Bonaparte Books
The Barrakee Mystery Upfield, Arthur
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
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
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
Detective-Inspector Bonaparte struggles to find the solution to two strange murders committed a year earlier in the Australian outback
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.
Three men set out from a small Australian seaside town for an ordinary day's fishing--and simply vanish. There are no clues to their fate, until another fisherman hauls in a gruesome catch--the head of one of the men, with a bullet hole in its temple.
When a senior police officer is killed by a bomb on a lonely outback road in Australia, Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in to track down the culprit
Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arranges to have himself arrested as a vagrant in order to go undercover and investigate the brutal killing of a drifter in a small Australian town
While on a secret assignment for Military Intelligence at the mountain resort of Wideview Chalet, Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte investigates a brutal murder and discovers a set of strange tracks
An Author Bites the Dust takes super-sleuth Napoleon Bonaparte to the house party of Mervyn Black, famous author and critic, where the host is found murdered among his literary friends.
After a policeman investigating the disappearance of two hikers is found murdered, Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is determined to solve the case
A string of bizarre murders shares common elements: all the victims are elderly bachelors and there is always a woman nearby at the time of the deaths. When the witnesses' descriptions of the woman vary widely, half-Aborigine detective Napoleon Bonaparte ("Bony") finds himself calling on a professional burglar and an amateur sketch artist for help.
When two beautiful widows in a small secluded Australian town are murdered, Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte tries to find the killer
4th Pan print edition paperback vg+ TV edition
The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of 'Venom House'. Perhaps that's because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, the treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aborigines slaughtered by Answerth ancestors. Or perhaps it's just because the Answerth household is such a strange one.
Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte investigates the puzzling kidnappings of five infant boys and the murder of the fifth child's mother
On a vast sheep station in the outback, Raymond Gillen goes swimming in the lake one night and is never seen again. After the failure of local police to solve the mystery, bony arrives disguised as a horse-breaker, and uncovers a story of sexual tension and murder. The lake is evaporating in the intense drought - only when it dies will the mystery be solved. Apart from its strengths as a crime novel, this is probably the best book ever written about drought in Australia.
Bony comes up against an aborigine tracker, the chief suspect in the murder of a policeman, in this battle of wits and wills in the outback. The mystery itself is as good as the bush scenes.
Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte investigates the death of a weather forecaster, whom a local doctor has certified died because of a three-day drinking binge
Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, travels to the remote Australian town of Chifley, to search for a woman who mysteriously disappeared from a passenger train crossing the Nullarbor Plain, a desolate desert
A woman is slain and her young daughter has vanished deep in the Australian outback. It is up to Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte to discover whether Ole Fren Yorkey, a half-crazed wanderer, is a killer and solve this dangerous riddle.
Detective-Inspector Bonaparte goes undercover in order to find a killer in the small Australian town of Daybreak
Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, a half-aborigine, is determined to solve a mysterious double murder in the Australian outback
Napoleon Bonaparte, a half-aboriginal police detective, disguises himself as a horse thief in order to investigate the murder of a government officer
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 a convicted rapist and basher, a bloody savage whose recapture will put all of Bony's sleuthing and tracking skills to the test.
Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte investigates the murder of an unidentified man, who was discovered dead in a meteor crater in the desert
