Arthur W Upfield Home Page

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Permanent Link to the Official Arthur W Upfield website of Tom Thompson.

Permanent Link to Biography of Arthur W Upfield by Travis Lindsey (pdf Document)

These titles and links below are for the posts on Arthur Upfield from TonyfromOz. This list will be added to every second day, when I will be attaching the most recent of the posts. This is just the Index for all the separate posts in this series.

There are two separate areas of reference.

The first is a series of Posts of my observations from reading through all these Upfield Novels. I took notes as I was reading each of the novels, and I have expanded those notes out into a series covering the many different aspects Upfield detailed, sometimes quite comprehensively in his Bony Series.

The second main heading details the 29 Upfield novels and my personal review of each novel. Some of those reviews are short and some are long, because some of the things in those novels requires further expansion also.

If you click on any of the highlighted titles, you will be taken to the separate post for that title.

I welcome, and will reply to, any and all comments you wish to make, be they here at the Home Page, or at any of these separate posts. I especially welcome comments from others who may have read any of Upfield’s novels in his Bony series because a variety of opinion always adds to the overall picture.

INTRODUCTION

Arthur W Upfield – A Uniquely Australian Crime Fiction Writer

NOTES ON UPFIELD’S CHARACTER BONY

Part 1. Arthur W Upfield – The Novels

Part 2. Upfield Commentary – Ray Brown’s ‘The Spirit Of Australia’

Part 3. Upfield Commentary – Jessica Hawke’s ‘Follow My Dust’ (Part 1) An Introduction to this book.

Part 4. Upfield Commentary – Jessica Hawke’s ‘Follow My Dust’ (Part 2) Swagmen and the exchange of books whilst moving around the ‘Outback’.

Part 5. Upfield Commentary – Jessica Hawke’s ‘Follow My Dust’ (Part 3) Telling the time by the stars.

Part 6. Upfield Commentary – Jessica Hawke’s ‘Follow My Dust’ (Part 4) Long range weather forecasting.

Part 7. Upfield Commentary – Jessica Hawke’s ‘Follow My Dust’ (Part 5) The Rabbit problem, Leon Wood, Snowy Rowles, and Journalism.

Part 8. Arthur W Upfield’s Novels – Three Non Bony Related Novel Reviews. Gripped By Drought, Breakaway House and The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery.

Part 9. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 1) An Introduction to this series of notes.

Part 10. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 2) Bony in Television.

Part 11. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 3) How Bony got his name.

Part 12. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 4) The anomaly of Bony’s age.

Part 13. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 5) Topical things in the novels at the time of writing.

Part 14. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part6) Upfield’s popularity in the U.S.

Part 15. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 7) Arthur Upfield and Political Correctness.

Part 16. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part Eight) Bony’s Education and Police Service Rank.

Part 17. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 9) Preface for the Posts on Tracking.

Part 18. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 10) The Science of Tracking (Part One).

Part 19. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 11) The Science of Tracking (Part Two).

Part 20. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 12) Preface for the Posts on Language.

Part 21. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 13) Language (Part One) The role of Skin Carvings in Aboriginal Language.

Part 21. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 14) Language (Part Two) The Role of Music in Aboriginal Language.

Part 22. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 15) Language (Part Three) The role of the small fires that the elders sat around.

Part 23. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 16) Preface for the Posts on the role of the tribal Shaman.

Part 24. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 17) The Role Of The Shaman (Part One).

Part 25. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 18) The Role Of The Shaman (Part Two).

Part 26. Tony’s Notes from The Bony Novels (Part 19) Aboriginal Tribal Etiquette.

Part 27. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 20) Lost Civilisation.

Part 28. Tony’s Notes From The Bony Novels (Part 21) The Closing Post

BOOK REVIEWS.

Where possible here, I am just detailing the basics from the novels, and some of the things worthy of mention that do not directly give away major aspects of the plot, the identity of the murderer, or how the investigation was resolved, because that is something left for the reader to find out for themselves, although with some of the novels, the Review is more in depth, necessitating detail of some of the plot lines.

The images of all the book covers I have with the Review of each novel are from the covers of the novels that I have in my personal collection of all 29 of the Bony books. These are not the original covers, but for the paperbacks that I have. Some titles indicate images with the spelling as ‘Boney’, and these were done to correlate with the TV production of the Bony series in the 70′s.

This is the listing for all 29 titles of the Bony novels. As the Review is posted the title will change to a link that takes you to the Review of that novel. Click on the link to be taken to the Review of the novel.

The Barrakee Mystery Also published under the title The Lure Of The Bush

The Sands Of Windee

Wings Above The Diamantina Also published under two other titles, Winged Mystery and Wings Above The Claypan

Mr Jelly’s Business Also published under the title Murder Down Under

Winds Of Evil

The Bone Is Pointed

The Mystery Of Swordfish Reef

Bushranger Of The Skies Also published under the title No Footprints In The Bush

Death Of A Swagman

The Devils Steps

An Author Bites The Dust

The Mountains Have A Secret

The Widows Of Broome

The Bachelors Of Broken Hill

The New Shoe Also published under the title The Clue Of The New Shoe

Venom House

Murder Must Wait

Death Of A Lake

Sinister Stones  Also published under the title Cake in The Hat Box

The Battling Prophet

The Man Of Two Tribes  Also published under the title Man Of Two Tribes

The Bushman Who Came Back  Also published under the title Bony Buys A Woman

Bony And The Black Virgin  Also published under the title The Torn Branch

Journey To The Hangman  Also published under the title Bony And The Mouse

Valley Of Smugglers  Also published under the title Bony And The Kelly Gang

The White Savage  Also published under the title Bony And The White Savage

The Will Of The Tribe

Madman’s Bend  Also published under the title The Body At Madman’s Bend

The Lake Frome Monster

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