Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte: An Author Bites the Dust (Audiobook)

from jburlinson

An atypical Upfield, since Bony's only excursion into the "bush" is to sit reading books under a lilac tree in the back yard. Is there a bit of wish fulfillment in this tale, considering that the victim is an odious author/critic who styles himself the doyen of Australian literature and who casti...

from antiquary

Unlike most of the series, this mystery is not laid in the outback. It is a conventional urban murder of a successful though not very pleasant Australian writer. Although Inspector Bonaparte solves it compentently, it is much less interesting than usual --it could be set in any British or America...

from mstrust

Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte skips his holiday to take on the case of a famous author who was found dead in his writing room while hosting a houseful of other, less accomplished, authors. Bony is far from his native Queensland and has to do his tracking in Melbourne and its suburbs, and figure ou...