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Bony
1929
series - author
novel
Issue Details:
First known date:
1938...
1938
The Bone Is Pointed
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'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)
Adaptations
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form
y
Boney Walks with Death
( dir. Howard Rubie
)
Australia
:
Fauna Productions
,
1973
Z1459014
1973
single work
film/TV
A man of mixed Aboriginal and European heritage (who bears a striking resemblance to Boney and who has been using his name) is killed when a crop duster engulfs him in a lethal cloud of insecticide. When Boney and Constable McGorr are sent to investigate the death, they find that one of the locals, Dr Paul Henderson, is over-anxious to protect his fiancée, Gloria Lacey (the daughter of an outback magistrate). Gloria had once had an affair with the murdered man and has since received death threats.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Place, Ecology and Environmental Writing in the Queensland Novels of Arthur Upfield
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 21 no. 1 2014; (p. 84-92) 'In the 29 novels by Arthur Upfield in which he is the protagonist, Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) is often referred to as a product of Queensland. We are reminded repeatedly of his origins, first in North Queensland (where he was born and raised on a mission) and then Brisbane (where he was educated, and where he and his wife live in the suburb of Banyo – though this city location is never described). But my main purpose here is to explore Upfield's representation of ‘place’, specifically in the three Queensland-focused Bony novels, and the related, recurrent discourses and tropes commonly associated with environmental writing and eco-criticism: wilderness, toxicity, pastoral, dwelling and particularly environmental crisis, eruption and catastrophe.' (Publication abstract) -
Issues of Class and Gender in Australian Crime Fiction : From the 1950s to Today
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 96-111) In this chapter, Rachel Franks notes ‘‘Australian crime fiction writers imported many types of crime fiction from Britain, including the gothic mystery and the Newgate novel, and from America, including the locked room mystery and the spy story.’ She observes how Australian crime fiction has changed along with the ‘societies that produce it.’ She concludes that for Australian crime fiction to be attractive to mass market and an assured popularity, Australian crime fiction writers must respond ‘to the changing demands of their readers,’ and ‘continue to develop the genre with increasingly sophisticated stories about murderers and those who bring them to justice.’ (Editor’s foreword xii) -
Anthropologists as Detectives and Detectives as Anthropologists
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Murder 101 : Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction 2009; (p. 166-177) -
Bony as Grotesque : The Dilemma of National Identity in Arthur Upfield's "Bony" Series, 1930-1950
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , Summer vol. 56 no. 4 1996-1997; (p. 37-48) Current Tensions : Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference : 6 - 11 July 1996 1996; (p. 152-158)
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Anthropologists as Detectives and Detectives as Anthropologists
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Murder 101 : Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction 2009; (p. 166-177) -
Issues of Class and Gender in Australian Crime Fiction : From the 1950s to Today
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 96-111) In this chapter, Rachel Franks notes ‘‘Australian crime fiction writers imported many types of crime fiction from Britain, including the gothic mystery and the Newgate novel, and from America, including the locked room mystery and the spy story.’ She observes how Australian crime fiction has changed along with the ‘societies that produce it.’ She concludes that for Australian crime fiction to be attractive to mass market and an assured popularity, Australian crime fiction writers must respond ‘to the changing demands of their readers,’ and ‘continue to develop the genre with increasingly sophisticated stories about murderers and those who bring them to justice.’ (Editor’s foreword xii) -
Bony as Grotesque : The Dilemma of National Identity in Arthur Upfield's "Bony" Series, 1930-1950
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , Summer vol. 56 no. 4 1996-1997; (p. 37-48) Current Tensions : Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference : 6 - 11 July 1996 1996; (p. 152-158) -
Place, Ecology and Environmental Writing in the Queensland Novels of Arthur Upfield
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 21 no. 1 2014; (p. 84-92) 'In the 29 novels by Arthur Upfield in which he is the protagonist, Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) is often referred to as a product of Queensland. We are reminded repeatedly of his origins, first in North Queensland (where he was born and raised on a mission) and then Brisbane (where he was educated, and where he and his wife live in the suburb of Banyo – though this city location is never described). But my main purpose here is to explore Upfield's representation of ‘place’, specifically in the three Queensland-focused Bony novels, and the related, recurrent discourses and tropes commonly associated with environmental writing and eco-criticism: wilderness, toxicity, pastoral, dwelling and particularly environmental crisis, eruption and catastrophe.' (Publication abstract)
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