Arthur W. Upfield

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....

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

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

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....

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

The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the South-East Coast of Australia....

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

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....

One night Raymond Gillen, shortly after winning over £12,000 in a lottery, went for a late-night swim in the waters of Lake Otway and never came back....

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 Bony's job to find the killer....

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....

Myra Thomas, accused of murdering her philandering husband, is found not guilty by a sympathetic jury....

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....

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....

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

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

The aborigines, who knew how many eagles flew over their inland desert, must have known who put the dead white man into Lucifer's Couch....

Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, to find that five babies have been abducted and a murder committed....

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

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....