Arthur W. Upfield

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.

Au sud de l'Australie s'étend une immense plaine désertique, inhospitalière baptisée Nullarbor. C'est dans ce décor hostile que Napoléon Bonaparte dit Bony, inspecteur de la Police de Brisbane, part à la recherche de Myra Thomas, une jeune femme portée disparue depuis plusieurs semaines.

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....

Tucked away in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is Cork Valley, inhabited by hard-drinking Irishmen. Here an Excise Officer looking for illicit whiskey 'stills' has been murdered, and it's Bony's job to find the killer....

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....

When Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in, everything goes against him. There is even a vicious attempt on his life....

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....

The incomparable Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is back - and now he must solve one of his most baffling cases....

A thrilling mystery and one of the incomparable Inspector Bonaparte's toughest cases....

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

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....

The police never notice the small detail in the background of a police photograph of an abandoned car....

Ben Wickham, a famous meteorologist whose uncannily accurate forecasts have helped famers and graziers all over Australia, has died after a three-week drinking bout....

The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the South-East Coast of Australia....

Why was the redoubtable King Henry, an aborigine from Western Australia, killed during a thunderstorm in New South Wales?....

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

The discovery of the stolen red monoplane on the dry, flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things to many people....

Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, to find that five babies have been abducted and a murder committed....

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....