Bony At Bermagui

Author : Arthur W. Upfield
Publisher : ETT Imprint
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781922698216

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Bony at Bermagui by Arthur W. Upfield Pdf

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 This book holds a previously unknown Bony story set in Bermagui, The Fish That Danced on its Tail, an unpublished story on Big Game Fishing, and stories on Marlin and Swordfish that Upfield wrote only for the Bermagui Anglers Club.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.

Author : Kees de Hoog
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781445766195

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When Bony Was There: A Chronology of the Life and Career of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte by Kees de Hoog Pdf

Using facts and clues gleaned from the Bony stories by Arthur Upfield, Kees de Hoog has compiled a chronology of the personal life events and professional assignments of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. This booklet uncovers the evidence and explains how it was pieced together to reveal the dates and other details. The conclusions are presented with the findings of similar research by others into the location of each Bony novel. Woven together they sketch the outline of the life, career and travels of the internationally acclaimed fictional detective.

Author : Arthur W. Upfield
Publisher : ETT Imprint
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781922473882

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Walkabout by Arthur W. Upfield Pdf

Arthur Upfield is known internationally for his crime novels featuring Bony, the Aboriginal Detective. In these thirteen stories written for Walkabout magazine between 1934 and 1949 and published in book form for the first time, readers will travel well beyond the cities, aided by maps and original photographs - through Cooper's Creek, visiting Lake Frome in South Australia, patrol the rabbit-proof fence in the West, pearling in Broome or go angling for Swordfish at Bermagui. Many of these stories give colour and detail to his more celebrated novels using the same settings as his crime novels. Another describes the Australian Geographical Society's 5000 mile venture from Perth to the Kimberleys and back, which was led by Upfield in 1948. Truly a book to remind us of the "walkabout" - a journey (originally on foot) undertaken by the Australian Aboriginal in order to live in the traditional manner.

Author : Arthur W. Upfield
Publisher : ETT Imprint
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922384515

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The Mystery of Swordfish Reef by Arthur W. Upfield Pdf

An intriguing case for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside near Bermagui. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing... and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found, until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing fishermen. It is quite clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol shot. But by whom, and why, is for Bony to find out. A thriller with a new kind of thrill. - Sheffield Morning Telegraph

Author : Arthur W. Upfield
Publisher : ETT Imprint
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922384546

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The Devil's Steps by Arthur W. Upfield Pdf

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

Author : A. J. Milnor
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443807753

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Arthur W. Upfield by A. J. Milnor Pdf

Both Australia and Arthur W. Upfield (1890-1964) matured together. At the start of the last century, Upfield emigrated to Australia as that nation was gaining independence and identity. The Gallipoli campaign changed both, and both spent the next decades in pursuit of identity, he wandering, Australia finding its own unique place among nations. Arthur W. Upfield lived a life many might envy: unsuccessful student, immigrant (1911), walker, horse breaker and camel driver, soldier, Bushman, fence rider, journalist, intelligence officer, explorer, novelist, swordfisherman, and creator of bi-racial Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, “Bony”, in novels rivaling the popularity of Sherlock Holmes. Caught between two worlds, like his fictional character, Upfield was thoroughly English and yet also an Australian nationalist describing Outback Australia to the world through his part Aboriginal character. Famous novelists including Tony Hillerman and Stan Jones, to name only two, found a detective model in “Bony”. Australia developed quickly after the Second World War, and Upfield, too, was successful after years of tea, chops and damper, chasing “rabbit, ‘roo and dog”. As Australia developed, Upfield’s Bush, his “Australia Proper”, slowly succumbed to modernization. After the war, Upfield left the Bush to become a successful writer eventually to be published in a wide range of languages and selling books in the millions of copies. The biography relies on letters, papers, and public documents of the period, in Australia, England and America, many unexplored before now, in order to understand the story of his life and that of his true homeland, Australia.

Author : Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879724021

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The Spirit of Australia by Ray Broadus Browne Pdf

In the world of crime fiction, Arthur W. Upfield stands among the giants. His detective-inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, is one of the most memorable of all crime fighters. Upfield was an independent, fiercely self-assertive ex-Britisher, who loved Australia, especially the Outback. In many ways Upfield became Outback Australia—the “Spirit of Australia.”

Author : Arthur W. Upfield
Publisher : ETT Imprint
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922384553

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An Author Bites the Dust by Arthur W. Upfield Pdf

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, who dies an agonising death late one night in his writing room. But how did he die? No one knows. No one that is until Bony's acute observation of human nature uncovers the murderer - and the method used to kill Blake. One of the few Bonaparte mysteries not set in the outback, reveals Upfield at his best and most ingenious. Napoleon Bonaparte - my best detective. - Daily Express

Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476670867

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Australian Crime Fiction by Stephen Knight Pdf

Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless gold-seekers, and urban crime fiction, including Fergus Hume's 1887 international best-seller The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne. The 1980s saw a surge of private-eye thrillers, popular in a society skeptical of police. Twenty-first century authors have focused on policemen--and increasingly policewomen--and finally indigenous crime narratives. The author explores in detail this rich but little known national subgenre.

Author : Carol Hetherington,Kees de Hoog
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443834957

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Investigating Arthur Upfield by Carol Hetherington,Kees de Hoog Pdf

Arthur Upfield created Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) who features in twenty-nine novels written from the 1920s to the the 1960s, mostly set in the Australian Outback. He was the first Australian professional writer of crime detection novels. Upfield arrived in Australia from England on 4 November 1911, and this collection of twenty-two critical essays by academics and scholars has been published to celebrate the centenary of his arrival. The essays were all written after Upfield’s death in 1964 and provide a wide range of responses to his fiction. The contributors, from Australia, Europe and the United States, include journalist Pamela Ruskin who was Upfield’s agent for fifteen years, anthropologists, literary scholars, pioneers in the academic study of popular culture such as John G. Cawelti and Ray B. Browne, and novelists Tony Hillerman and Mudrooroo whose own works have been inspired by Upfield’s. The collection sheds light on the extent and nature of critical responses to Upfield over time, demonstrates the type of recognition he has received and highlights the way in which different preoccupations and critical trends have dealt with his work. The essays provide the basis for an assessment of Upfield’s place not only in the international annals of crime fiction but also in the literary and cultural history of Australia.

Author : Arthur William Upfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bonaparte, Napoleon, Inspector (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780684850603

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The Mystery of Swordfish Reef by Arthur William Upfield Pdf

Three men set out from a small Australian seaside town for an ordinary day's fishing--and simply vanish. There are no clues to their fate, until another fisherman hauls in a gruesome catch--the head of one of the men, with a bullet hole in its temple.

Author : John Loder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009721478

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Australian Crime Fiction by John Loder Pdf

This bibliography lists more than 2000 titles by some 500 Australian authors during the period 1857-1993. Covers detective fiction, mystery stories, works on gangs and pushes, spies, enemy agents, bushrangers and convicts. Also contains the first detailed listing of Australian pulps and ephemerals. Includes title index, illustrators index, and investigators and criminals index.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Oceania
ISBN : UCAL:$B566567

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Pacific Islands Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Athel D'Ombrain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Big game fishing
ISBN : UCSD:31822010713337

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Game Fishing Off the Australian Coast by Athel D'Ombrain Pdf

Author : Linda S. Turnbull,Elaine H. Hendrix,Borden D. Dent
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015050314809

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Atlas of Crime by Linda S. Turnbull,Elaine H. Hendrix,Borden D. Dent Pdf

Contains maps and articles that provide information on the geographical history of crime, the influence space has on a criminal's motivations, and other geographical aspects of crime.