Arthur Upfield

Au sud de l'Australie s'étend une immense plaine désertique, inhospitalière baptisée Nullarbor. C'est dans ce décor hostile que Napoléon Bonaparte dit Bony, inspecteur de la Police de Brisbane, part à la recherche de Myra Thomas, une jeune femme portée disparue depuis plusieurs semaines.

The police never notice the small detail in the background of a police photograph of an abandoned car....

An intriguing case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside town. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing ... and do not return....

In an isolated hut not far from the sleepy country town of Merino, stockman George Kendall is found dead and it looks very much like murder....

Why was the redoubtable King Henry, an aborigine from Western Australia, killed during a thunderstorm in New South Wales?....

On a deserted dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep has been abandoned...enter Inspector Bonaparte. 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....

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.

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....

Among the 28,000 inhabitants of Broken Hill there stalks a killer. Already two elderly bachelors have died horribly from cyanide poisoning....

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called to the drought-stricken outback for this, his latest case....

An extraordinary case for Detective-Inspector Napolean Bonaparte opens when a police car is bombed from the air on a lonely outback road.....

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....

Tucked away in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is Cork Valley, inhabited by hard-drinking Irishmen. Here an Excise Officer looking for illicit whiskey 'stills' has been murdered, and it's Bony's job to find the killer....

The incomparable Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is back - and now he must solve one of his most baffling cases....

Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective....

The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of "Venom House"....

One night Raymond Gillen, shortly after winning over £12,000 in a lottery, went for a late-night swim in the waters of Lake Otway and never came back....

Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, to find that five babies have been abducted and a murder committed....

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte leaves his familiar outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort on special assignment for Military Intelligence....

The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the South-East Coast of Australia....