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6 3 y separately published work icon Hit and Run Joan Phipson , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1989 Z831292 1985 single work novel young adult Sixteen-year-old Roland's hit-and-run accident in a borrowed car sends him fleeing into the wild Australian countryside, where he struggles for both survival and self-respect.
3 6 y separately published work icon The Cats Joan Phipson , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1989 Z517297 1976 single work children's fiction children's thriller
10 3 y separately published work icon The Bushman Who Came Back Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1988 Z209419 1957 single work novel crime mystery detective
— Appears in: Bestseller Mystery Magazine , April vol. 3 no. 2/226 1961; (p. 4-109)
— Appears in: Trikrat Napoleon Bonaparte 1977; (p. Page numbers unavailable)
7 3 y separately published work icon The Battling Prophet Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1988 Z1363904 1955 single work novel crime mystery detective

'Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate forecasts have helped farmers all over Australia, until recently lived nearby. But he has died after a three week drinking binge and a doctor certified death resulting from delirium tremens. Yet Bony's host insists that whatever Ben died of, it wasn't alcohol.' (Publication summary)
4 1 y separately published work icon Valley of Smugglers Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1988 Z413872 1960 single work novel crime mystery detective
6 2 y separately published work icon Venom House Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1988 Z283537 1952 single work novel crime detective mystery
— Appears in: Vrazda musi pockat ; Vola kmena ; Prekliaty dom 1988; (p. Page numbers unavailable)

'The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House - perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aboriginals slaughtered by the Answerth ancestors. Whatever the reason, most people are content to give Venom House and its occupants a wide berth... until a couple of corpses turn up in the lake. Inspector Bonaparte has a sudden urge to get to knows the Answerths and their charming home much better... ' (Publication summary)
8 4 y separately published work icon Murder Must Wait Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1987 Z1507440 1953 single work novel crime mystery detective
— Appears in: Vrazda musi pockat ; Vola kmena ; Prekliaty dom 1988; (p. Page numbers unavailable)
6 y separately published work icon The Devil's Steps Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1987 Z1174558 1946 single work novel detective
4 5 y separately published work icon An Author Bites the Dust Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1987 Z62594 1948 single work novel crime mystery detective
5 3 y separately published work icon Journey to the Hangman Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1987 Z290793 1959 single work novel crime mystery detective
— Appears in: Bony a mys ; Po stope novej topanky ; Stari mladenci z Broken Hillu 1976; (p. Page numbers unavailable)
— Appears in: Boni I Myshka [and] Leiik-Froumskiii Koshmar 1996;
6 7 y separately published work icon Winds of Evil Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1987 1937 single work novel crime
6 4 y separately published work icon The Bone Is Pointed Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1986 Z211356 1938 single work novel crime

'Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care. But Bony is determined to follow the cold trail and smoke out some answers.' (Publication summary)
4 7 y separately published work icon Man of Two Tribes Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1986 Z152501 1956 single work novel crime detective Bony discovers a group of people imprisoned in limestone underground caves and must free them and lead them to safety.
9 1 y separately published work icon Sinister Stones Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1986 Z1175739 1954 single work novel mystery crime
— Appears in: Trikrat Napoleon Bonaparte 1977; (p. Page numbers unavailable)
— Appears in: Sovremennyi avstraliiskii detektiv 1990;
3 1 y separately published work icon Bushranger of the Skies Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1986 Z849009 1940 single work novel crime detective '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 Bonys endurance to the limit and takes the detective as close to death as he has ever been. Welcome to Central Australia!' (Publication summary)
5 13 y separately published work icon Wings above the Diamantina Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1986 Z558666 1936 single work novel crime detective '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. ' (Publication summary)
8 5 y separately published work icon Mr Jelly's Business Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1986 Z1369404 1932 single work novel crime
6 4 y separately published work icon Death of a Swagman Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1986 Z258342 1945 single work novel crime detective mystery

'Merino is an isolated town in New South Wales. Posing as a laborer, Bony goes there to investigate the murder of a vagrant and soon discovers a murderous tangle of motives and suspects. There are some very engaging characters and some excellent tracking scenes leading to a suspenseful finish.'(Publication summary)
4 1 y separately published work icon The Will of the Tribe Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1984 Z962007 1962 single work novel mystery detective crime
— Appears in: Vrazda musi pockat ; Vola kmena ; Prekliaty dom 1988; (p. Page numbers unavailable) This adventure of Inspector Napoleon (Bony) Bonaparte is set in North Western Australia; it deals with a corpse in a meteor crater and with vital information hidden behind the impassive mask of an aboriginal tribe, where only the half-black Bony has any hope of reaching it. The interplay between whites and blacks, from assimilated to wholly wild, is subtly and sensitively handled, and Bony emerges as one of the rare detective figures with genuine stature as a man. As in most Upfield novels, the geography, the geology and the cultural anthropology of Australia are living elements in the story (Cover, Collier 1984 ed.).
4 2 y separately published work icon Bony and the Black Virgin Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Collier Books , 1965 Z205233 1959 single work novel crime mystery detective
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