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Arthur W. Upfield's Books
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Enhance TV, January 27, 2010
...The unknown story of Australia's most neglected bestselling author, Arthur Upfield, who created the Aboriginal detective series Bony. When Upfield was sent out to Australia in the early 1900s by his English merchant father, who regarded him as a complete...
Planetizen, January 4, 2010
...a social democracy featuring police officer Martin Beck. A series of novels from the 1920s through the 1960s, Arthur Upfield’s Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte series, features an engaging sleuth with mixed aboriginal and white parentage and with skills...
Brisbane Courier-Mail, November 13, 2009
...readers. Crime writers from the past such as Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the Sherlock Holmes series, and Arthur Upfield, whose compelling mysteries featured Aboriginal detective Bony, remain etched in many people's literary memories. More contemporary...
The Australian, October 30, 2009
...John Douglas Pringle and Claude McKay; artists George Molnar, Russell Drysdale, Norman Lindsay and Bill (WEP) Pidgeon, writers Arthur Upfield, George Johnston and Charmian Clift, Barry Humphries, Max Harris and a young Tom Keneally. All the prime...
Sydney Morning Herald, June 10, 2009
...terrible twist it came true. Now the intertwined tales of the Murchison triple-murders and the making of novelist Arthur Upfield are told in a compelling ABC telemovie, 3 Acts Of Murder. Upfield was the creator of the fictional part-Aboriginal detective...
Perth Now, June 9, 2009
...Murder. Set in the Great Depression in Western Australia, this is the true story of Australian crime writer Arthur Upfield (Robert Menzies), who plotted the perfect murder for his fictional half-Aboriginal super sleuth Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) in his...
Reactions to Reading, January 7, 2010
...actually read a few more than this but not all old books are great) (sorry Dashiell Hammett and Arthur Upfield but …well…”ugh” on both counts). However I’ve been preparing my own list of classics to read and I’m planning to read Fergus...
Ann Forsyth's blog, January 4, 2010
...a social democracy featuring police officer Martin Beck. A series of novels from the 1920s through the 1960s, Arthur Upfield’s Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte series, features an engaging sleuth with mixed aboriginal and white parentage and with skills...
MYSTERIES in PARADISE, April 25, 2009
...under a particular post 1. Organise an online meeting for your book group 2. Forgotten Books: VENOM HOUSE, Arthur Upfield 3. Forgotten Book: A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES, Ellis Peters 4. Up for Grabs - THE CRUELLEST MONTH, Louise Penny 5. Your Best Crime...
MYSTERIES in PARADISE, April 10, 2009
...the Upfields because of 3 Acts of Murder coming to ABC TV soon. From the website: In 1929 Arthur Upfield, Australia's premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee . Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy...
