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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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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This biography of Frank Cobbold opens when Frank goes to sea on a Clipper aged 14. It follows him through inexperience as a Fijian trader who escaped the cannibals' cook pot and survived one of the worst hurricanes in living memory. In Australia he learned the skills of a surveyor and quickly became a sought-after and trusted station manager. Despite problems that would have defeated a less resolute man he took droughts, cheats and unyielding land...
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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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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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Broome is a little sun-drenched town on the barren north-west coast of Australia, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business, where all the little bungalows might be glass for all the secrets they hide. How then had the murderer of Broome's two most attractive widows got away without leaving a single clue? Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte investigates, with his usual calm precision - but the murderer strikes again, and Bony...
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»Upfields Bony-Romane sind für mich bei weitem das interessanteste Produkt australischer Literatur. Und einige von ihnen... mit ihrer Mischung aus Land, Farmern, Eingeborenen, Mythen, Puzzle und ›Action‹ sind absolute Sternstunden des Kriminalromans.« - Gisbert Haefs, Krimijahrbuch 1990
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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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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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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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Huit volumes essentiels dans une collection (Grands Détectives) qui ne l'est pas moins. Huit romans signés Arthur Upfield, père d'un des flics les plus attachants du genre. Le dénommé Napoléon Bonaparte, Bony pour les intimes, est moitié blanc, moitié aborigène. Intuitif et méticuleux, il est également rompu aux astuces de la vie dans le bush et aux subtilités de l'interprétation des paysages grandioses de l'Australie (chaque roman se...
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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,...
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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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Pour sa vingt-cinquième enquête, l'inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte s'immerge dans un monde qui lui est peu familier, celui des écrivains. Dogmes, rivalités, exclusions ... loin de se contenter de pointes assassines, la littérature fera un mort, et Bony dévoilera des talents qu'on ne lui imaginait pas, d'o il ressort que le flair aborigène mène à tout. Arthur Upfield se venge ici d'un milieu littéraire australien qui n'accueille pas volontiers...
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Deep in Australia's outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Ole Fren Yorky, a crazy wanderer, is known to have been in the area, and his footprints have been identified near the body. When he too disappears, even the Aboriginal trackers are baffled. Bony's approach changes everything...
It becomes one of Bony's great adventures... He pictures the merits of Aboriginal society. And he uses weather - in this case the threatening rising...
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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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»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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"L'inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte est un gentleman, courtois avec les dames. Il roule ses cigarettes à la main. Il est aussi malin que Sherlock Holmes. Surtout, fils d'un père blanc et d'une mère aborigène, il possède les deux cultures et navigue de l'une à l'autre. Ses enquêtes se déroulent dans le bush australien, royaume des aborigènes, qui sont les héros secrets de ces livres : traqueurs, pistards, broussards, grande connaissance des...