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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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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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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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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Nom: Napoléon Bonaparte. "Bony" pour les intimes.
Profession: inspecteur métis de la police du Queensland, dans le bush australien.
Son créateur, Arthur Upfield (1888-1964), est fasciné par ce pays-continent dont il décrit avec lyrisme l'étrange beauté. D'o le rythme lent et prenant de ses livres balayés par le souffle des grands espaces, là o le temps semble s'être arrêté.
Comme l'a écrit Antoine de Gaudemar dans Libération: "Napoléon...
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»Vor sich sahen sie den ausgetrockneten, völlig platten Grund einer seichten Senke. Die Ufer dieses wasserlosen Sees waren aus weißem, betonhartem Lehm, der sich wie ein helles Band zu Füßen leuchtend grüner Fieberbäume hinzog. Plötzlich stieß Elisabeth einen gellenden Schrei aus, und Nettlefold stieg automatisch auf die Bremse.
In der Mitte des Sees lag ein kleines knallrotes Flugzeug.«
Völlig unbeschädigt, aber mit einer bewußtlosen...
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Une fois encore, l'inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte se retrouve confronté à urie affaire des plus étranges qui parviendra un moment à le désorienter. De mystérieux enlèvements de bébés ont été signalés dans un petit bourg de Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Bony va trouver néanmoins une aide de taille auprès d'une coéquipière efficace, Alice, qui, si elle connaît les enfants, sait aussi comment en découdre avec les grands. Leur enquête révélera...
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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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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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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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When Inspector Bonaparte is called to the drought-stricken outback sheep station he finds that two men have been savagely beaten to death. Clues are scarce in this sun-baked, sand-blown country, but Bony's understanding of the bush and the people who live there, both black and white, leads him inexorably towards the killer. When Upfield gets down to the point of interracial sexual relations, he in effect is writing on one of the topics closest to...
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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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When Eric Maidstone was found dead near Bore Ten, just west of the Dingo-proof Fence, the first thought of those who discovered his body was that he might have been attacked by the rogue camel known as The Lake Frome Monster. But camels don't carry guns.. and Maidstone had a bullet-hole in his chest which put the Monster in the clear. So who killed young Maidstone? Bony, disguised as a worker on the Fence, intends to find out. There are sand storms...
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Quando due anziani scapoli furono avvelenati con il cianuro, ogni volta sulla scena apparve una strana donna, ma ora è scomparsa senza lasciare traccia. Rintracciarla in una cittadina di ventottomila abitanti è un lavoro che mette a dura prova perfino i poteri dell'ispettore Bonaparte. Avrà bisogno dell'assistenza non ortodossa del ladro Jimmy the Screwsman e di un disegnatore di disegni fulminei, così come di tutte le abilità deduttive e di...
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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,...
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By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-time Karl Mueller is roused from his drink-sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees on waking (or thinks he sees) is enough to make him stiffen with fear, and more than enough to worry the police into calling for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.
The disturber of Mueller's rest is Marvin Rhudder - once an outstanding theological student, now...
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Wachtmeister Stenhouse hatte bei den Leuten im australischen Busch viele Feinde.
Deshalb zweifelt Inspektor Bonaparte daran, daß Stenhouse ausgerecgbet von seinem einzigen Freund ermordet wurde.
Aber die Tatsachen sprechen für sich, und alles deutet auf die Schuld des Fährtensuchers Jacky.
Bis »Bony« eine Entdeckung macht…
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Jeffrey Anderson was a big man with a foul temper - a sadist and an ugly drunk. When his horse The Black Emperor, an animal as mean as its owner, came home riderless, no one cared. And no one cared when no trace of the man could be found. But five months later, Detective-Inspector Bonaparte is called in - and he is determined to solve the mystery. With his usual tenacity he takes up the cold trail. What happened to Anderson, to his hat, to his stockwhip,...