Arthur W. Upfield
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The discovery of a stolen red monoplane on the dry, flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things for different folks. For Elizabeth Nettlefold, the chance to nurse its strangely ill meant renewed purpose in life. For Dr. Knowles, brilliant physician and town drunk, it meant the revival of a romantic dream. For some it meant a murder plan gone awry, and for Bonaparte, it meant one of the toughest cases of his career.
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To observe a ridge of sandhills was to wonder what lay beyond them... Perhaps it was the sense of freedom, both physically and spiritually, the knowledge that should I want to look beyond the sandhills and peer beyond the mirage, there was nothing but my two legs and a water bag to prevent me...
As thousands did before me, and as men are still doing in these days, I asked for my cheque instead of orders one bright morning in May, and a week later...
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Au plus profond du bush australien, une jeune femme a été sauvagement assassinée. Sa petite fille a disparu. Qui est le meurtrier ? Un vieux vagabond à moitié fou, que tout semble désigner?
Pour trouver la réponse, l'inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte n'hésite pas à acheter une femme à un vieux chef aborigène contre quarante carottes de tabac, et à subtiliser le trésor magique d'une tribu. Mais Bony est un gentleman ... Il nous entraîne...
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In the Grampian Mountains, two girl hitch-hikers have disappeared without trace, and the policeman sent to investigate has been murdered. Bonaparte visits the lonely hotel where the girls were last seen, and meets up with the suave proprietor, his strangely terrified father, an ex-US paratrooper with a penchant for knife-throwing, and a talking parrot...
All in all, this is a high suspense drama, and a fine Upfield story. - From The Spirit of Australia...
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Three times a killer has struck in Daybreak, a one-pub town in Western Australia. Why should so many people suspect the strange 'bad boy' Tony Carr? Why were the local Aboriginal tribe far away from town at the time of the murders? Inspector Bonaparte finds this small community very tight, till the arrival of a job-seeking bloke by the name of Nat Bonnar...
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Au lendemain de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, Broome somnole en se remémorant son animation passée et son florissant commerce de perles. Somnole? Pas tout à fait. Un assassin a déjà tué deux jolies veuves et Bony se doute bien qu'il ne va pas s'arrêter là. Qui peut-il bien être? M. Dickenson, le, distingué alcoolique de cette paisible communauté, est catégorique : sûrement pas un pêcheur convaincu, car les "pêcheurs convaincus n'étranglent...
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Eight hundred kilometres from the sea, Lake Otway is dying. Heat, drought, and thirst-crazed animals take their toll. When Ray Gillen, lucky lottery winner, went for a swim one night and never came back, some thought it was an accident, or was it murder? As the water level drops, five men and two women wait beside the shrinking lake - for the body, the money, or neither. And watching it all, Bony...
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Es ist Hochsommer im südlichen Hinterland Australiens.
Der Wasserspiegel des Lake Otway sinkt unaufhaltsam, die Tiere flüchten aus dem Dürregebiet. Während die Naturkatastrophe ihren Lauf nimmt, tritt Inspektor Napoleon Bonaparte in Aktion. Als Zureiter getarnt, ermittelt er wegen eines lange zurückliegenden Mordes. Vor Jahren verschwand hier in der Gegend ein reicher Fremder, und den Erzählungen nach liegt er auf dem Grund des Sees...
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Ce n'est pas la première fois que l'inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte doit arracher au Livre de la Brousse des indices qui lui permettront d'élucider un meurtre. Ce n'est pas la première fois non plus qu'il doit le faire malgré l'opposition acharnée d'une tribu. Mais jamais auparavant, Bony n'avait dû compter avec les rites magiques des aborigènes. Or cette fois, l'os est pointé sur lui, le vouant à une mort certaine, à moins que... -
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Why had Luke Marks driven specially out to Windee? Had he been murdered or had he, as the local police believed, wandered away from his car and been overwhelmed in a dust-storm? When Bony noticed something odd in the background of a police photograph, he begins to piece together the secrets of the sands of Windee. Here is the original background to the infamous Snowy Rowles murder trial.
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Um den Fall Marks aufzuklären, nahm Inspektor Bonaparte, der berühmte »Bony«, seinen Abschied bei der Kriminal-polizei von Queensland. Jetzt streift er inkognito durch Neusüdwales. Für die Polizei galt der Fall als abgeschlossen. Bony aber hält den Tod des Polizeibeamten Luke Marks für einen - fast - perfekten Mord!
12) Winds of Evil
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When Bonaparte sets out to investigate two bizarre murders near the dusty little outback town of Carie, all the odds are against him. The crimes were committed a year before, the scent cold, and any clues that may have survived have been confused by a ham-fisted city policeman. As Bony follows the trail he is first threatened and then attacked by the mysterious murderer. It's a case that will tax his ingenuity to the limit... if he lives to see it...
13) Winds of Evil
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Für zwei mysteriöse Mode gibt es offensichtlich kein Motiv.
Inspektor Napoleon Bonaparte, der berühmte Bony, ermittelt in diesem Fall als Tramp verkleidet. Da versetzt ein neuer Mordversuch die Leute von Carie in Angst und Schrecken.
Bony stellt dem Würger eine Falle - mit dem vermeintlichen Mörder als Köder…
14) Bony at Bermagui
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On a signboard at Cobargo I read the magic word 'Bermagui'. "That's the place Zane Grey wrote about," remarked my son. "That's the place I'm looking for," I decided. And what a place! Oh, what a place. The air like wine and as cool as that in the green ferntree depths of the gully beside my mountain home! The surf everlastingly playing its music on the sand beach before the town, and the great rocky headland to seaward…
Arthur Upfield was Australia's...
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An extraordinary case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte opens when a police car is bombed from the air on a lonely outback road by a mysterious pilot who plans to conquer a nation. The trail through the land of burning waters tests Bony's endurance to the limit and takes the detective as close to death as he has ever been. Welcome to Central Australia!
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Arthur Upfield, creator of the Aboriginal detective 'Bony' followed his classic crime novel The Sands of Windee with this historical romance: The Crown Prince of Rolandia is visiting Australia - and two brilliant Americans, Earle Lawrence and Van Horton - abduct her on the trans-continental train on the Nullabor Plain. They hide her in caves near Eucla on the Great Australian Bight, until the search is called off and a ransom is arranged...
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An intriguing case for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside near Bermagui. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing... and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found, until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing fishermen. It is quite clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol shot. But by whom, and...
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Myra Thomas, apparently dressed only in nightgown and slippers, has walked off the train somewhere along the 650 kilometres of track that crosses the Nullarbor Plain. With two camels and a dog, Bony begins to search the desert in search of her. He finds more than he bargins for - only to find a group of people imprisoned in the extensive limestone caves beneath the desert plain...
This is surely one of the two or three strangest of Upfield's novels....
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»Bony spürte eine warnende Kälte im Nacken und fuhr herum. Zwei Krähen schienen den Verstand verloren zu haben; sonst gab es nichts zu sehen. Er ging im Kreis um den Schacht herum und fand das große Loch, einsfünfzig im Durchmesser und ungefähr in der Mitte einer kahlen, flachen Platte aus Kalkstein. Hinter ihm bellte Lucy wütend. Wieder drehte er sich rasch um, und die Kälte in seinem Nacken wurde zu Eis.«
Bony sucht eine Frau, die spurlos...
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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, who dies an agonising death late one night in his writing room.
But how did he die? No one knows. No one that is until Bony's acute observation of human nature uncovers the murderer - and the method used to kill Blake. One of the few Bonaparte mysteries not set in the outback,...