ARTHUR W. UPFIELD SERIES:

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Venom House

Venom House

Arthur W. Upfield

Mystery & Thrillers

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 by the Answerth ancestors. Whatever the reason, most people are content to give Venom House and its occupants a wide berth... until a couple of corpses turn up in the lake. Inspector Bonaparte has a sudden urge to get to knows the Answerths and their charming home much better...
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The Battling Prophet

The Battling Prophet

Arthur W. Upfield

Mystery & Thrillers

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate weather forecasts had helped farmers all over Australia, lived nearby.Ben died after a three-week drinking binge and a doctor certified death as due to delirium tremens - but Bony's host insists that whatever Ben died of it was alcohol...
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Death of a Swagman

Death of a Swagman

Arthur W. Upfield

Mystery & Thrillers

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 madness - in semi-detention he is made to paint the police station and keeps a perfect disguise while searching for single-minded killer...
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