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Book Synopsis The Gifts of Frank Cobbold by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book The Gifts of Frank Cobbold written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Frank Cobbold opens when Frank goes to sea on a Clipper aged 14. It follows him through inexperience as a Fijian trader who escaped the cannibals' cook pot and survived one of the worst hurricanes in living memory. In Australia he learned the skills of a surveyor and quickly became a sought-after and trusted station manager. Despite problems that would have defeated a less resolute man he took droughts, cheats and unyielding land tenure regulations in his stride to become one of Australia's great pioneering pastoralists. Admired by fellow bushmen, trusted by his partners and wooed by bankers, his gritty determination earned him a small fortune which he gave away. It's a remarkable story.
Book Synopsis The Gifts of Frank Cobbold by : Arthur William Upfield
Download or read book The Gifts of Frank Cobbold written by Arthur William Upfield and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gifts of Frank Cobbold by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book The Gifts of Frank Cobbold written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by Ett. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Frank Cobbold opens when Frank goes to sea on a Clipper aged 14. It follows him through inexperience as a Fijian trader who escaped the cannibals' cook pot and survived one of the worst hurricanes in living memory. In Australia he learned the skills of a surveyor and quickly became a sought-after and trusted station manager. Despite problems that would have defeated a less resolute man he took droughts, cheats and unyielding land tenure regulations in his stride to become one of Australia's great pioneering pastoralists. Admired by fellow bushmen, trusted by his partners and wooed by bankers, his gritty determination earned him a small fortune which he gave away. It's a remarkable story.
Book Synopsis Murder Must Wait by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book Murder Must Wait written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, four babies have been stolen - all boys, all under three months old, and all apparently neglected by their mothers. The local police have given up and the trail is cold. Then a fifth child vanishes, and the mother is found dead next to the empty cot. Inspector Bonaparte is called in, first to find the missing children, and only then to solve the murder... Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives. - BBC
Book Synopsis The Will of the Tribe by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book The Will of the Tribe written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is in a harsh and eerie landscape - the crater formed by the meteor they called "The Stranger" - that another stranger is found... dead. In an area where the presence of every outsider is announced by the bush telegraph, how had this man passed unreported? Who was he? How had he died? 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 a secret - untill the will of the Tribe breaks their silence... This is undoubtedly Upfield's strongest book, for a number of reasons: 1) Bony is at his best in his detective work; 2) Upfield is at his best in studying the social and cultural situations of the white and the Aboriginals; 3) though the physical setting is less intense than in some other works, it is strong here; 4) Upfield's symbolism - especially in the use of the metaphor of clothes vs nakedness - is extraordinarily complex. There is no doubt that this particular book is a masterpiece in every way. - from The Spirit of Australia by Ray Browne.
Book Synopsis The Devil's Steps by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book The Devil's Steps written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On special assignment with Military Intelligence, Detective-Inspector Bonaparte leaves his familiar Australian outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort. Although out of his element with city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues in the search for a wily killer… The complex half-caste Bony is, I think, my favourite fictional detective of the past twenty years. - Anthony Boucher, The New York Times
Book Synopsis Winds of Evil by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book Winds of Evil written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Bony follows the trail he is first threatened and then attacked by the mysterious murderer. It's a case that will tax his ingenuity to the limit... if he lives to see it through. Excellent set up for a story, good cast of characters, perplexing confusion of suspects, and perceptive unravelling of tangled threads. - Kirkus Review
Book Synopsis The Bone is Pointed by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book The Bone is Pointed written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Anderson was a big man with a foul temper - a sadist and an ugly drunk. When his horse The Black Emperor, an animal as mean as its owner, came home riderless, no one cared. And no one cared when no trace of the man could be found. But five months later, Detective-Inspector Bonaparte is called in - and he is determined to solve the mystery. With his usual tenacity he takes up the cold trail. What happened to Anderson, to his hat, to his stockwhip, to his horse's neck-rope? Bony must rely on his eyes and his wits to help him find the answers, for the local inhabitants, both black and white, are keeping their own secrets. Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives - BBC
Book Synopsis Bony at Bermagui by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book Bony at Bermagui written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a signboard at Cobargo I read the magic word 'Bermagui'. "That's the place Zane Grey wrote about," remarked my son. "That's the place I'm looking for," I decided. And what a place! Oh, what a place. The air like wine and as cool as that in the green ferntree depths of the gully beside my mountain home! The surf everlastingly playing its music on the sand beach before the town, and the great rocky headland to seaward… Arthur Upfield was Australia's first international crime writer when he first stayed at Bermagui around the time of Zane Grey's visit there in 1936. This book holds a previously unknown Bony story set in Bermagui, The Fish That Danced on its Tail, an unpublished story on Big Game Fishing, and stories on Marlin and Swordfish that Upfield wrote only for the Bermagui Anglers Club. Also included are a chapter from his classic Bony novel, The Mystery of Swordfish Reef, and the only other Bony story - A Wisp of Wool and Disk of Silver and many photographs from the Upfield family archives.
Book Synopsis The Sands of Windee by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book The Sands of Windee written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Napoleon Bonaparte my best detective. - Daily Mail
Book Synopsis Gripped By Drought by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book Gripped By Drought written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful story of Australia's great sheep farms. Gripped By Drought is a powerful story of a man's battle not only with the elements of nature which threatened the ruin of his huge Australian sheep-farm, but also with a loveless and unhappy marriage. For Frank Mayne, master of well-nigh a million-acre sheep station, life assumed its most dreary aspect. No rain for his farm, a wife who involved him in an orgy of spending and entertainment, and with disaster just round the corner, there seemed little prospect of happiness. Yet in the darkest hour of all, after the many unexpected and sometimes thrilling situations, the darkest hour of the drought gave way to rain and Mayne's tribulations became of the past.
Book Synopsis Wings Above the Diamantina by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book Wings Above the Diamantina written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of a stolen red monoplane on the dry, flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things for different folks. For Elizabeth Nettlefold, the chance to nurse its strangely ill meant renewed purpose in life. For Dr Knowles, brilliant physician and town drunk, it meant the revival of a romantic dream. For some it meant a murder plan gone awry, and for Bonaparte, it meant one of the toughest cases of his career. Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives. - BBC
Book Synopsis Bony Buys a Woman by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book Bony Buys a Woman written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in Australia's outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Ole Fren Yorky, a crazy wanderer, is known to have been in the area, and his footprints have been identified near the body. When he too disappears, even the Aboriginal trackers are baffled. Bony's approach changes everything... It becomes one of Bony's great adventures... He pictures the merits of Aboriginal society. And he uses weather - in this case the threatening rising of the lake - to picture man's heroic stature. The setting, the events, the pace of telling the story, the style of telling it - all combine to make this a tight, effective crime novel. - From The Spirit of Australia by Ray Browne.
Book Synopsis The Widows of Broome by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book The Widows of Broome written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broome is a little sun-drenched town on the barren north-west coast of Australia, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business, where all the little bungalows might be glass for all the secrets they hide. How then had the murderer of Broome's two most attractive widows got away without leaving a single clue? Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte investigates, with his usual calm precision - but the murderer strikes again, and Bony realizes he is dealing with a madman - that time is running out... Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives - BBC
Book Synopsis The Bachelors of Broken Hill by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book The Bachelors of Broken Hill written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two elderly bachelors were poisoned with cyanide, a strange woman was on the scene each time - but now she has disappeared, leaving no trace. Tracking her down in a town of twenty-eight thousand people is a job to tax even Detective Inspector Bonaparte's powers. He will need the unorthodox assistance of burglar Jimmy the Screwsman and a lightning-sketch artist, as well as all the deductive and tracking skills at his command, as he trails a killer no-one has seen...
Book Synopsis Bony and the Black Virgin by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book Bony and the Black Virgin written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Inspector Bonaparte is called to the drought-stricken outback sheep station he finds that two men have been savagely beaten to death. Clues are scarce in this sun-baked, sand-blown country, but Bony's understanding of the bush and the people who live there - both black and white - leads him inexorably towards the killer… When Upfield gets down to the point of interracial sexual relations, he in effect is writing on one of the topics closest to his heart. Here his picture is unusually poignant. Caught in the iron grip of separation from his kind, of loneliness, of sexual attraction, Eric Downer is a victim of life... - from The Spirit of Australia by Ray Browne.
Book Synopsis Death of a Lake by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book Death of a Lake written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight hundred kilometres from the sea, Lake Otway is dying. Heat, drought, and thirst-crazed animals take their toll. When Ray Gillen, lucky lottery winner, went for a swim one night and never came back, some thought it was an accident, or was it murder? As the water level drops, five men and two women wait beside the shrinking lake - for the body, the money, or neither. And watching it all, Bony… Death of a Lake is as intense and unremitting story as Upfield ever wrote. It should be, for it is very close to Upfield's personality ... being the real Albermarle Station where Upfield was first hired as a cook in the 1920s and where he began his writing career ... In a hut at Wheeler's Well Upfield was inspired to write his Bony after a visit by Upfield's friend tracker Leon Wood. - from The Spirit of Australia by Ray Browne. Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives - BBC
