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Inspector Bonaparte is the protagonist in a series of detective fiction novels by Australian novelist Arthur Upfield. Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (aka “Bony”) is a half-Caucasian, half-Aboringine police detective with the Queensland police force. The novels are not only set in Queensland, but throughout the entire country of Australia. He often works undercover, using a pseudonym.

Arthur Upfield began his Inspector Bonaparte series in 1928 with the novel The Barrakee Mystery. The series lasted 29 novels, concluding in 1966 with The Lake Frome Monster. Below is a list of Arthur Upfield’s Inspector Bonaparte books in order of when they were originally published (which is the same as their chronological order):

Publication Order of Inspector Bonaparte Books

The Barrakee Mystery/The Lure of the Bush (1929)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Sands of Windee (1931)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Wings Above the Diamantina / Wings Above the Claypan (1936)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Mr. Jelly's Business/Murder Down Under (1937)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Winds of Evil (1937)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Bone is Pointed (1938)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Mystery of Swordfish Reef (1939)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Bushranger of the Skies/No Footprints in the Bush (1940)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Death of a Swagman (1945)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Devil's Steps (1946)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
An Author Bites the Dust (1948)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Mountains Have a Secret (1948)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Bachelors of Broken Hill (1950)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Widows of Broome (1951)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The New Shoe/The Clue of the New Shoe (1951)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Venom House (1952)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Murder Must Wait (1953)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Death of a Lake (1954)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Sinister Stones/Cake in the Hat Box (1954)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Battling Prophet (1956)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Man of Two Tribes (1956)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Bony Buys a Woman/The Bushman Who Came Back (1957)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Bony And The Mouse/Journey to the Hangman (1959)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Bony and the Black Virgin/The Torn Branch (1959)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Bony and the Kelly Gang/Valley Of Smugglers (1960)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Bony And The White Savage (1961)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Will of the Tribe (1962)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Madman's Bend/The Body at Madman's Bend (1963)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Lake Frome Monster (1966)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

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Inspector Bonaparte Synopses: The Barrakee Mystery by Arthur Upfield is the first book in the Inspector Bonaparte series. What was aborigine King Henry, 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? Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is a half-aborigine detective, who is taken to a sheep station in the Darling River bush country where he encounters those problems he understands so well.

The Sands of Windee is book 2 of the Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte series by Arthur W. Upfield. 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.

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One Response to “Order of Inspector Bonaparte Books”

  1. Adele Lerner: 6 years ago

    I love Bony. Thank you for reminding me of the several paperbacks of old that I have in the back row of my bookshelves. They deserve to be re-read., along with my Margery Allinghams, etc.

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