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y separately published work icon The Mountains Have a Secret single work   novel   crime   detective  
Is part of Bony Arthur W. Upfield , 1929 series - author novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1948... 1948 The Mountains Have a Secret
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'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 proprietor. The resulting encounter propels Bony into an investigation which almosts costs him his life.' (Publication summary)

 

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Boney Takes a Holiday Tony Morphett , ( dir. Eric Fullilove ) Australia : Fauna Productions , 1972 Z1458908 1972 single work film/TV A veterinary student and a customs agent disappear in the Flinders Ranges, and Inspector Bonaparte is sent to investigate the case for the South Australian police. He soon finds himself plunged into a strange case of murder and the illegal export of Merino rams.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Doubleday ,       1948 .
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      Extent: 187p.
      Edition info: Crime Club edition.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Unicorn Mystery Book Club ,       1948 .
      Extent: 188p.
      Note/s:
      • Omnibus edition; bound with The Long Escape by David Dodge, Shadow of Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer and Halo for Satan by John Evans.
      • Published by arrangement with the Crime Club.
    • London,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Melbourne, Victoria,: Heinemann ,       1952 .
      Extent: vi, 209p.
    • London,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Pan ,       1954 .
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      Extent: 191p.
      Reprinted: 1967 , 1971 , 1972 , 1983 0330270400
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Heinemann ,       1970 .
      Extent: v, 209p.
      Reprinted: 1977
      ISBN: 0434811599
    • Mattituck, New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Amereon House ,       1990-1999 .
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      Extent: 191p.
      ISBN: 0848806530
    • North Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1991 .
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      Extent: 191p.
      Written as: Arthur Upfield
      Note/s:
      • Editor's note: Part of the appeal of Arthur Upfield's stories lies in their authentic portrayal of many aspects of outback Australian life in the 1930s and through into the 1950s. The dialogue, especially, is a faithful evocation of how people spoke. Hence, these books reflect and depict the attitudes and ways of speech, particularly with regard to Aborigines and to women, which were then commonplace. In reprinting these books the publisher does not endorse the attitudes or opinions they express.
      ISBN: 0207162727
Serialised by: Detective Fiction 1948 periodical (2 issues)
Notes:
Serialised from Vo.1, no.1, December 1948.
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    y separately published work icon Detective Fiction vol. 1 no. 2 January 1949 Z1703922 1949 periodical issue 1949 pg. 43-64
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Works about this Work

Outback Detective Reborn Nick Talbot , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 8 June 1991; (p. 14)
— Review of The Body at Madman's Bend Arthur W. Upfield , 1963 single work novel ; The Mountains Have a Secret Arthur W. Upfield , 1948 single work novel
Outback Detective Reborn Nick Talbot , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 8 June 1991; (p. 14)
— Review of The Body at Madman's Bend Arthur W. Upfield , 1963 single work novel ; The Mountains Have a Secret Arthur W. Upfield , 1948 single work novel
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Last amended 20 Aug 2020 13:23:41
Subjects:
  • Grampians - Pyrenees area, Victoria,
  • Australian Outback, Central Australia,
  • The Grampians, Grampians - Pyrenees area, Victoria,
Settings:
  • Dunkeld, Dunkeld - Penshurst area, Western District, Victoria,
  • 1950s
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