Arthur W. Upfield
1890-1964
 

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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