The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of 'Venom House'. Perhaps that's because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, the treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aborigines slaughtered by Answerth ancestors. Or perhaps it's just because the Answerth household is such a strange one.

Venom House

Literature & Fiction

Arthur W. Upfield

Contemporary

Collier Books

Detective-Inspector Bonaparte struggles to find the solution to two strange murders committed a year earlier in the Australian outback

Winds of Evil (A Scribner Crime Classics)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, travels to the remote Australian town of Chifley, to search for a woman who mysteriously disappeared from a passenger train crossing the Nullarbor Plain, a desolate desert

Man of Two Tribes (An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery)

Though used to dealing in character assassination and verbal back stabbing the literary clique gathered at the house party of Mervyn Blake is shocked when their host is found dead in his writing room...

An Author Bites the Dust

Angus&Robertson

Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care. But Bony is determined to follow the cold trail and smoke out some answers.

Bone is Pointed

Ben Wickham, a famous meteorologist whose uncannily accurate forecasts have helped famers and graziers all over Australia, has died after a three-week drinking bout. The doctor certifies that his death was cause by heart failure, due to alcoholic poisoning.
But Ben's neighbor and drinking partner, John Luton, is convinced his friend didn't die from too much gin. He manages to lure Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte to his riverside cottage near the South Australian coast, on an unofficial visit for a spot of fishing.
Bony, thinking at first he's on holiday and paying a casual visit, is intrigued and decides to investigate.
PLEASE NOTE: Part of the appeal of Arthur Upfield’s stories lies in their authentic portrayal of many aspects of outback Australian life in the 1930s and into the 1950s. These books reflect and depict the attitudes and ways of speech of that era particularly with regard to Aborigines and to women. In reproducing this book the publisher does not endorse the attitudes or opinions they express.

Battling Prophet

ANGUS R

The incomparable Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is back and now he must solve one of his most baffling cases.

Winds of Evil

Thrillers & Suspense

TBS The Book Service Ltd

The New Shoe

An intriguing case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside town. 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 bullet. But by whom, and why, is for Bony to find out.

Mystery of Swordfish Reef

In the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, four babies have mysteriously disappeared...

Murder Must Wait

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