Arthur W. Upfield

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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 original 1941 radio dramatization of Inspector Bonaparte Mystery—featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. The discovery of a stolen red monoplane on the dry flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things for different folks....

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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....