Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Books 1-22, 24-27, 29 – Arthur W. Upfield Free Audiobook

Written by Arthur W. Upfield
Read by Peter Hosking
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[01]

The Barrakee Mystery
By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 1
Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-12-15
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
Why was the redoubtable King Henry, an aborigine from Western Australia, killed during a thunderstorm in New South Wales? What was the feud that led to murder after nineteen long years had passed? And who was the woman who saw the murder and kept silent?

This first story of Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-aborigine detective, takes him to a sheep station in the Darling River bush country where he encounters those problems he understands so well… mixed blood and divided loyalties.

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 through 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.

[02]

Sands of Windee
By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 2
Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 07-15-12
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
The police never notice the small detail in the background of a police photograph of an abandoned car. A detail that tells Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte plainly that the mysterious disappearance of Luke Marks near Windee Station is anything but accidental.

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? Bony feels the answers lie somewhere in the sands of Windee.

[03]

Wings Above the Diamantina
By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 3
Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 02-27-13
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
The discovery of the stolen red monoplane on the dry, flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things to many people. For Elizabeth Nettlefold, the chance to nurse its strangely ill passenger meant a new purpose in life. For Dr Knowles, brilliant physician and town drunk, it meant the revival of a romantic dream. For a person or persons unknown, it meant a murder plan gone badly awry. And for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, it meant one of the toughest cases of his career.

[04]

Mr. Jelly’s Business
By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 4
Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-07-12
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
Mr. Jelly’s Business is one of the finest of Arthur Upfield’s many distinguished stories about the career of Detective Inspector Napoleon (“Bony”) Bonaparte. It takes Bony to the West Australian town of Burracoppin to investigate the disappearance of George Loftus, whose car was found wrecked near the longest fence in the world, the 1,500 mile Rabbit Fence. He meets Loftus’s wife, who is anything but grief-stricken at her husband’s disappearance; Loftus’s hired man, singularly reticent about his own past history; and many of Burracoppin’s numerous gossips. Later he encounters the mysterious Mr. Jelly, whose business causes his charming daughters great anxiety.

The double question of Loftus’ disappearance and Mr. Jelly’s business taxes Bony’s well-known powers of observation and deduction to the utmost, until the two problems are simultaneously solved.

As anyone who knows Arthur Upfield’s other work would expect, Mr. Jelly’s Business is more than a story of crime and detection: It also offers an admirable picture of life in West Australia’s wheat country.

[05]

Winds of Evil
By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 5
Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 07-15-12
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

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

When Bony sets out to investigate two bizarre murders at Wirragatta Station, deep in the Australian Outback, all the odds are against him. The crimes were committed a year before, the scent is now cold, and any surviving clues have been confused by a bumbling policeman.

As Bony gets closer to the trail, the mysterious murderer sets out to stop him. Can Bony stop the killer first?

[06]

The Bone Is Pointed
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 6
Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-21-10
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
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.

[07]

The Mystery of Swordfish Reef
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 7
Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-09-09
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
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.

[08]

Bushranger of the Skies
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 8
Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-09-09
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
An extraordinary case for Detective-Inspector Napolean Bonaparte opens when a police car is bombed from the air on a lonely outback road by a mysterious pilot who plans to conquer a nation.

The trail through the Land of Burning Water tests Bonys endurance to the limit and takes the detective as close to death as he has ever been.

[09]

Death of a Swagman
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 9
Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-09-09
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
In an isolated 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, when the murderer is still at large, another stockman turns up in the township and, as a first move, provokes the local sergeant to lock him up. This particular stockman is Detective-Inspector Napolean Bonaparte, and there’s method in his seeming madness. While serving a semi-detention sentence and being made to paint the police station, he wears the best of all possible disguises for a policeman on the trail of a ruthless and single-minded killer.

[10]

Devil’s Steps
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 10
Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-08-09
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte leaves his familiar outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort on special assignment for Military Intelligence.

Although out of his element among city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues and catch a murderer – providing the ingredients for another fascinating Arthur Upfield mystery.

[11]

An Author Bites the Dust
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 11
Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-03-09
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
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 agonizing 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, An Author Bites the Dust reveals the author as his best and most ingenious.

[12]

The Mountains Have a Secret
By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 12
Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 08-12-16
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
A thrilling mystery and one of the incomparable Inspector Bonaparte’s toughest cases.

Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte travels to Victoria, where two young women have disappeared while hiking in the Grampians. Not long after the search for the girls is called off, a local detective is found shot dead.

Bony visits the hotel the women were last seen at, and meets the hotel’s unsavoury proprietor. The resulting encounter propels Bony into an investigation which almost costs him his life.

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 through into the 1950s. These audiobooks reflect and depict the attitudes and ways of speech of that era particularly with regard to Aborigines and to women. In reproducing this audiobook the publisher does not endorse the attitudes or opinions they express.

[13]

The Widows of Broome
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 13
Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 11-01-13
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
Broome is a small, sun-drenched town on the barren northwest coast of Australia. It’s small enough that everyone knows everyone else’s business. How, then, did someone murder two widows in similar fashion and not leave any clues?

It’s a case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, who arrives on the scene incognito. He’s barely begun his investigation when a third woman is killed. Bony realises that he is dealing with a madman, and that time is running out to stop a forth murder.

[14]

The Bachelors of Broken Hill
By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 14
Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 11-20-09
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
A Golden Age mystery, from the incomparable Arthur Upfield. Arthur Upfield was the first non-American to be awarded full membership of the Mystery Writers Guild of America.

Among the 28,000 inhabitants of Broken Hill, there stalks a killer. Already two elderly bachelors have died horribly from cyanide poisoning. Now, two months later, Detective Inspector Napolean Bonaparte faces a cold trail – no motive, no clues. So Bony waits for what he believes to be inevitable – a third killing.

[15]

The Clue of the New Shoe
By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 15
Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 11-02-10
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the South-East Coast of Australia. Investigating the crime Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-aborigine detective, wonders why a coffin is moved at night, who was the girl struggling with Dick Lake on the cliff top, and what caused the Bully Buccaneers to deal in death. Superintendent Bolt said, ‘It’s the toughest job we’ve ever had to bash open.’ An ordinary policeman could afford to fail, but Bony never….

[16]

Venom House
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 16
Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-09-09
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
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, its 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.

[17]

Murder Must Wait
By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 17
Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-07-12
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, to find that five babies have been abducted and a murder committed. The half-aborigine sleuth calls in policewoman Alice McGorr to help him, and one of the most important clues they find is a cave drawing depicting an aboriginal legend. Bony, as unorthodox and cunning as ever, reenacts the legend in order to solve the mystery.

[18]

Death of a Lake
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 18
Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-06-16
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
Napoleon Bonaparte returns in this classic Australian mystery from the classic Bony series.

One night Raymond Gillen, shortly after winning over £12,000 in a lottery, went for a late-night swim in the waters of Lake Otway and never came back. No one doubted that he drowned; the main question on everyone’s lips was, what happened to the money?

Three years later drought is taking its toll, and Lake Otway is close to death, losing the last of its water. Five men and two women wait to find out whether the shrinking lake will uncover Gillen’s body and a clue to his missing money. Also on the scene, and content to wait, is Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.

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 through 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 audiobook, the publisher does not endorse the attitudes or opinions they express.

[19]

Cake in the Hat Box
An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery, Book 19
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Series, Book 19
Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
Release date: 01-01-19

Publisher’s Summary
On a deserted dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep has been abandoned…enter Inspector Bonaparte.

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, and clues are thin on the ground. Enter Inspector Bonaparte, who soon realises that he is not alone in his search for the criminal.

The local Aboriginal people are seeking vengeance, too….

[20]

The Battling Prophet
By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 20
Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 07-02-15
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
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 neighbour and drinking partner, John Luton, is convinced his friends 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.

[21]

Man of Two Tribes
By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 21
Length: 6 hrs
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 12-18-14
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
Myra Thomas, accused of murdering her philandering husband, is found not guilty by a sympathetic jury. But while travelling from Adelaide to Perth on the Transcontinental Railway express, she mysteriously disappears during the overnight journey across the vast, featureless desert.

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte takes the case and sets off to search for her over the flat wasteland of the Nullabor Plain. At first it seems that the harsh environment will give him no clues, but Bony soon finds more than he bargained for? landing himself in a bigger mystery, and a fight for survival…

[22]

Bony Buys a Woman
An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery, Book 22
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Series, Book 22
Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
Release date: 01-01-19

Publisher’s Summary
This is the 22nd instalment in Mr. Upfield’s detective series featuring the Australian Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.

Deep in Australia’s outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Yorky, one of the locals and 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….

[23]

Journey to the Hangman – Not available in audio format

[24]

Bony and the Black Virgin
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 23
Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 05-19-10
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called to the drought-stricken outback for this, his latest case.

At a desolate sheep station, two men have been savagely beaten to death, and it’s Bony’s job to make an arrest. This isn’t an easy case, since 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 to the killer.

[25]

Bony and the Kelly Gang
An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery, Book 25
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Series, Book 25
Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
Release date: 01-01-19

Publisher’s Summary
This is the 25th instalment in Mr. Upfield’s detective series featuring the Australian Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.

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 hitchhikes into the valley to meet a lawless lot….

[26]

Bony and the White Savage
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 26
Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-09-09
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-timer Karl Mueller is roused from his drink-sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees on waking (or he thinks he sees) is enough to make him stiffen with fear, and more than enought to worry the police into calling for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.

[27]

The Will of the Tribe
By: Arthur Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 27
Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 11-14-09
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
The aborigines, who knew how many eagles flew over their inland desert, must have known who put the dead white man into Lucifer’s Couch. But no one in Hall’s Creek, white or black, reported seeing the stranger – and there were no tracks around the meteor crater. Was the murder done by whites or blacks or by both in collusion? Bony listened to the ancient tribal legends and found truth nobody wanted to believe.

[28]

Madman’s Bend – Not available in audio format

[29]

The Lake Frome Monster
By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
Series: Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Book 29
Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-07-12
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Publisher’s Summary
What is the Lake Frome Monster? Why are the Aborigines so terrified of it? And what dreadful part did it really play in the sudden death of a former roving reporter? When Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in, everything goes against him. There is even a vicious attempt on his life….