Arthur W. Upfield

The police never notice the small detail in the background of a police photograph of an abandoned car....

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

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 thrilling mystery and one of the incomparable Inspector Bonaparte's toughest cases....

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....

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

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

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....

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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 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....

Broome is a small, sun-drenched town on the barren northwest coast of Australia. It's small enough that everyone knows everyone else's business....