 Arthur William Upfield was born in Gosport, Hampshire, England. In 1911, he moved to Australia. He died in Bowral, New South Wales. He is the creator of 'Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte', a half-white, half-aboriginal police inspector of the Queensland Police Force. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 'Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte' Novels | |
| 1) The Barrakee Mystery (US Title: The Lure of the Bush [1965]) | 1929 |
| 2) The Sands of Windee | 1931 |
| 3) Wings above the Diamantina (US Title: Wings above the Claypan [1943]) (Also published as: Winged Mystery [1937]) | 1936 |
| 4) Mr. Jelly's Business (US Title: Murder down Under [1943]) | 1937 |
| 5) Winds of Evil | 1937 |
| 6) The Bone Is Pointed | 1938 |
| 7) The Mystery of Swordfish Reef | 1939 |
| 8) Bushranger of the Skies (US Title: No Footprints in the Bush [1944]) | 1940 |
| 9) Death of a Swagman | 1946 |
| 10) The Devil's Steps | 1948 |
| 11) An Author Bites the Dust | 1948 |
| 12) The Mountains Have a Secret | 1948 |
| 13) The Bachelors of Broken Hill | 1950 |
| 14) The Widows of Broome | 1951 |
| 15) The New Shoe (Also published as: The Clue of the New Shoe [1974]) | 1951 |
| 16) Venom House | 1953 |
| 17) Murder Must Wait | 1953 |
| 18) Death of a Lake | 1954 |
| 19) Cake in the Hatbox (US Title: Sinister Stones [1954]) | 1954 |
| 20) The Battling Prophet | 1956 |
| 21) The Man of Two Tribes | 1956 |
| 22) Bony Buys a Woman (US Title: The Bushman Who Came Back [1957]) | 1957 |
| 23) Bony and the Black Virgin (Also published as: The Torn Branch [1986]) | 1959 |
| 24) Bony and the Mouse (US Title: Journey to the Hangman [1959]) | 1959 |
| 25) Bony and the Kelly Gang (US Title: Valley of the Smugglers [1960]) | 1960 |
| 26) Bony and the White Savage (US Title: The White Savage [1961]) (Also published as: Boney and the White Savage [1987]) | 1961 |
| 27) The Will of the Tribe | 1962 |
| 28) Madman's Bend (US Title: The Body at Madman's Bend [1963]) | 1963 |
| 29) The Lake Frome Monster | 1966 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) The House of Cain | 1928 |
| 2) The Beach of Atonement | 1930 |
| 3) Gripped by Drought | 1932 |
| 4) A Royal Abduction | 1932 |
| 5) Breakaway House | 1987 |
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