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An Author Bites the Dust by Arthur W. Upfield
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Ser.
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' ...Show more
Cake in the Hat Box by Arthur W. Upfield
$12.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Ser.
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 and clues are thin on the ground. Enter Inspector Bonaparte, who soon realises that he is not alone in his search for the criminal.The lo ...Show more
Man of Two Tribes by Arthur W. Upfield
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Ser.
Myra Thomas, accused of murdering her philandering husband, is found not guilty by a sympathetic jury. But while travelling from Adelaide to Perth on the Transcontinental Railway express, she mysteriously disappears during the overnight journey across the vast, featureless desert.Detective-Inspector Nap ...Show more
Man of Two Tribes by Arthur W. Upfield
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Ser.
Myra Thomas, accused of murdering her philandering husband, is found not guilty by a sympathetic jury. But while travelling from Adelaide to Perth on the Transcontinental Railway express, she mysteriously disappears during the overnight journey across the vast, featureless desert.Detective-Inspector Nap ...Show more
The Barrakee Mystery by Arthur W. Upfield
$80.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Ser.
Why was the redoubtable King Henry, an aborigine from Western Australia, killed during a thunderstorm in New South Wales? What was the feud that led to murder after nineteen long years had passed? And who was the woman who saw the murder and kept silent?This first story of Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, ...Show more
The Battling Prophet by Arthur W. Upfield
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Ser.
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 doctor certifies that his death was cause by heart failure, due to alcoholic poisoning.But Ben's neighbour and drinking partner, John ...Show more
The Devil's Steps by Arthur W. Upfield
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Ser.
On special assignment with Military Intelligence, Detective-Inspector Bonaparte leaves his familiar Australian outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort. Although out of his element with city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues in the sea ...Show more
The Lake Frome Monster by Arthur W. Upfield
$12.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Ser.
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... wh ...Show more
The Lake Frome Monster by Arthur W. Upfield
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Ser.
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... wh ...Show more
The Mountains Have a Secret by Arthur W. Upfield
$40.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Ser.
Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte travels to Victoria, where two young women have disappeared while hiking in the Grampians. Not long after the search for the girls is called off, a local detective is found shot dead.Bony visits the hotel the women were last seen at, and meets the hotel's unsavoury proprieto ...Show more
The Mountains Have a Secret by Arthur W. Upfield
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Ser.
Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte travels to Victoria, where two young women have disappeared while hiking in the Grampians. Not long after the search for the girls is called off, a local detective is found shot dead.Bony visits the hotel the women were last seen at, and meets the hotel's unsavoury proprieto ...Show more
The Widows of Broome by Arthur W. Upfield
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Ser.
Broome is a small, sun-drenched town on the barren northwest coast of Australia. It's small enough that everyone knows everyone else's business. How, then, did someone murder two widows in similar fashion and not leave any clues?It's a case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, who arrives on the ...Show more