Book 4

Mr Jelly's Business

by Arthur Upfield

Published September 1971
Murder down under. The car lies wrecked and abandoned near the world's longest fence, the "rabbit-proof fence" in the wheat belt of Western Australia. There is no sign of its owner. Has George Loftus simply decamped, for reasons of his own? Or was it murder? Bonaparte suspects the worst...Read more

Book 16

Venom House

by Arthur Upfield

Published 30 November 1970
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...Read more

Death of a Swagman

by Arthur Upfield

Published December 1970
In an isolate hut not far from the sleepy country town of Merino, stockman George Kendall is found dead - and it looks very much like murder. Six weeks later Bony arrives incognita at Merino and provokes the local police to lock him up. There is method in Bony's...Read more

Winds of Evil

by Arthur Upfield

Published May 1969
When Bonaparte sets out to investigate two bizarre murders near the dusty little outback town of Carie, all the odds are against him. The crimes were committed a year before, the scent cold, and any clues that may have survived have been confused by a ham-fisted city policeman. As...Read more

Mystery of Swordfish Reef

by Arthur Upfield

Published November 1971
On a calm October day in an Australian seaside town, three met set out to sea for a day's fishing...and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace or the men or their boat is founds, until weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the...Read more

Will of the Tribe

by Arthur Upfield

Published 6 March 1972
A body has been found in a meteor crater in the middle of the Australian desert, with no hint of how it got there. No tracks around the crater and no stranger in town. It soon becomes obvious to Bony that both the locals and the Aboriginals are guarding...Read more

Lure of the Bush

by Arthur Upfield

Published 1 May 2013