Arthur W. Upfield

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

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

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....

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

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

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....

When Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in, everything goes against him. There is even a vicious attempt on his life....

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

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