ARTHUR W. UPFIELD SERIES:

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Gripped By Drought

Gripped By Drought

Arthur W. Upfield

Mystery & Thrillers

Frank Main owns a sheep station of about 800,000 acres in western New South Wales. He visits England and marries Ethel, travelling the world for three years before returning to the station in the first year of a drought. Two more years of drought takes its toll, on the marriage, the property; and Frank faces ruin...
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The House Of Cain

The House Of Cain

Arthur W. Upfield

Mystery & Thrillers

Upfield's first published novel 1929: Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiance, Martin Sherwood, goes blind from shock. His famous adventuring brother Monty, learns that Austilene is in a refuge for murderers in the far north-east corner of South Australia, and together the Sherwoods set out to find her and bring her back to Melbourne...
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Bony and the White Savage

Bony and the White Savage

Arthur W. Upfield

Mystery & Thrillers

Good-looking Marvin Rhudder came home from college on a long summer vacation. The day it ended he raped Rose Jukes... Thirteen years later, after a long series of sex crimes, he returns to Timbertown - wanted for murder. Some remembered him with hatred, some with love, but no one ever forgot Marvin. Hidden in the cliff caves of the dangerous southern coast, it would take an army to prise Marvin out - or maybe just Inspector Bonaparte...
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The Mountains Have a Secret

The Mountains Have a Secret

Arthur W. Upfield

Mystery & Thrillers

In the Grampian Mountains, two girl hitch-hikers have disappeared without trace, and the policeman sent to investigate has been murdered. Bonaparte visits the lonely hotel where the girls were last seen, and meets up with the suave proprietor, his strangely terrified father, an ex-US paratrooper with a penchant for knife-throwing, and a talking parrot...
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The Mystery of Swordfish Reef

The Mystery of Swordfish Reef

Arthur W. Upfield

Mystery & Thrillers

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 head of one of the missing fishermen. It is clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol shot, but by whom, and why, is for Bony to find out.
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The Sands of Windee

The Sands of Windee

Arthur W. Upfield

Mystery & Thrillers

Why had Luke Marks driven specially out to Windee? Had he been murdered or had he, as the local police believed, wandered away from his car and been overwhelmed in a dust-storm? When Bony noticed something odd in the background of a police photograph, he begins to piece together the secrets of the sands of Windee. Here is the original background to the infamous Snowy Rowles murder trial.
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