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The Bachelors of Broken Hill

By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
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Among the 28,000 inhabitants of Broken Hill there stalks a killer. Already two elderly bachelors have died horribly from cyanide poisoning. Now, two months later, Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte faces a cold trail - no motive, no clues. So Bony waits for what he believes to be inevitable - a third killing.©1958 Bonaparte Holdings Ltd. (P)2000 Bolinda Publishing Mystery Police Procedurals Suspense Thriller & Suspense

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Peter Hosking's intense voice plays the full emotional range of this truly Australian mystery. Set in a remote mining town, The Bachelors of Broken Hill by Arthur W. Upfield tells the story of two unexplained murders. Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in to solve the crimes, but is left waiting for another killing when the clues lead nowhere. In chilling tones, award-winning Hosking delivers a lucid performance of this literary mystery, at once a novel and a document of Australian life and culture at the time it was written.

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"Peter Hosking animates the characters...bringing the richness and vastness of the Australian continent vividly to life....Hosking enriches Upfield's characters with intonations ranging from heated thrill to deadly cold calculation." ( AudioFile, Earphones Award Winner)
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Who is killing elderly men who have food stains on their clothing? In solving that little problem, we also learn a great deal about a marvelous place in Australia called Broken Hill, who killed the female clerk at the police station and a little about glass daggers.

It's all solved, of course, by Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony to his friends) that marvelous half-caste aborigine with the astounding blue eyes and the incredible nose for winkling out even the most mysterious crime.

Buy this book. You will never guess the end in a million years!

Down with sloppy eaters

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this was a highly entertaining well written fun story. it wasn't a classic detective novel and that you could not figure out the motives from clues, but it's such an enjoyable stroll through 1940s australia. and the reader is simply wonderful.

I could listen to this author forever

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Narration: classic, delightful Aussie speech.

Content and story: follows Bony formula, which is predictable but nonetheless engaginG.

Classic Bony

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Great voice characterizations. Humorous story as well as a good mystery. Always enjoy Bony through Peter Hosking.

Highly enjoyable.

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