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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.
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Au plus profond du bush australien, une jeune femme a été sauvagement assassinée. Sa petite fille a disparu. Qui est le meurtrier ? Un vieux vagabond à moitié fou, que tout semble désigner?
Pour trouver la réponse, l'inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte n'hésite pas à acheter une femme à un vieux chef aborigène contre quarante carottes de tabac, et à subtiliser le trésor magique d'une tribu. Mais Bony est un gentleman ... Il nous entraîne...
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"L'inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte est un gentleman, courtois avec les dames. Il roule ses cigarettes à la main. Il est aussi malin que Sherlock Holmes. Surtout, fils d'un père blanc et d'une mère aborigène, il possède les deux cultures et navigue de l'une à l'autre. Ses enquêtes se déroulent dans le bush australien, royaume des aborigènes, qui sont les héros secrets de ces livres : traqueurs, pistards, broussards, grande connaissance des...
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Une fois encore, l'inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte se retrouve confronté à urie affaire des plus étranges qui parviendra un moment à le désorienter. De mystérieux enlèvements de bébés ont été signalés dans un petit bourg de Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Bony va trouver néanmoins une aide de taille auprès d'une coéquipière efficace, Alice, qui, si elle connaît les enfants, sait aussi comment en découdre avec les grands. Leur enquête révélera...
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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...
All in all, this is a high suspense drama, and a fine Upfield story. - From The Spirit of Australia...
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By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-time Karl Mueller is roused from his drink-sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees on waking (or thinks he sees) is enough to make him stiffen with fear, and more than enough to worry the police into calling for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.
The disturber of Mueller's rest is Marvin Rhudder - once an outstanding theological student, now...
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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...
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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...
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"Moitié blanc et moitié aborigène, le détective Napoléon Bonaparte (Bony pour les intimes) enquête dans le bush australien. Tony Hillerman a reconnu dans son "père", l'écrivain Arthur Upfield, le pionnier ( combien talentueux!) du polar ethnologique. Quelle découverte!"
Nouvel Observateur, 1992
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Les meurtres se succèdent à Daybreak, petit bourg d'Australie-Occidentale. Mais comment trouver le coupable sans mobile apparent ni preuve convaincante? La police, bredouille, appelle l'inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte à la rescousse. Homme à tout faire, barman, dresseur de chevaux Bony n'aura jamais autant travaillé. Mais il n'oubliera pas son enquête et, patiemment, comme un chat guette une souris, il attendra que l'assassin commette une erreur.
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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 wasn't alcohol. This is an unusual crime story for Upfield, but, revealing the...
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Sinister stones... On a lonely dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep is found. In it is Constable Stenhouse - shot dead. His Aboriginal tracker has disappeared. Enter Inspector Bonaparte, who soon realizes that he is not alone in his search for the criminal. The local Aboriginal tribe is seeking vengeance too...
Fascinating in its treatment of outback life, and reveals clearly the weakness Bony has for young women and for people in the cattle...
13) Venom House
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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...
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Murder down under. The car lies wrecked and abandoned near the world's longest fence, the "rabbit-proof fence" in the wheat belt of Western Australia. There is no sign of its owner. Has George Loftus simply decamped, for reasons of his own? Or was it murder? Bonaparte suspects the worst and is determined to find the body, and the murderer.
15) Murder Must Wait
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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...
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L'Australie déploie ses paysages somptueux de roc et de sable dans cette nouvelle enquête de Napoléon Bonaparte, I'inspecteur sangmêlé créé par Arthur Upfield, un policier bien étrange en vérité, qui nia pas son pareil pour déchiffrer les pages du "Livre de la brousse" et qui n'hésitera pas à se faire coffrer pour prendre un meurtrier dans ses filets.
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If any man was ever born to be murdered, it was William Lush, a hated drunk who disappeared after beating his wife to death. Plenty of men had the opportunity to murder Lush, some the means, none the motive. Jill Madden, his pretty step-daughter, had all three. When Lush disappears, Inspector Bonaparte must look for a body, and the murderer, before the Darling River rises to flood level..
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« Natif de Corse, Napoléon Bonaparte ? Pensez-vous ! Excellent cavalier, "Bony" sillonne le bush australien dans de longues traques contre les criminels. Son seul credo : protéger les gens contre "la violence, les dégénérés et les assassins". Quitte, au passage, à envoyer quelques-uns de ses "clients" à la potence. Aucun scrupule et pas davantage d'états d'âme pour celui qui, bien qu'inspecteur, ne se considère pas comme un flic. Voilà...
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Tucked away in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is Cork Valley, inhabited by hard-drinking Irishmen. Here an Excise Officer looking for illicit whiskey 'stills' has been murdered, and it's Bony's job to find the killer. Disguised as a horse-thief, the Aboriginal detective hitch-hikes into the valley to meet a lawless lot...
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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...
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