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. He finds more than he bargains for - only to find a group of people imprisoned in the extensive limestone caves beneath the desert plain This is surely one of the two or three strongest of Upfield's novels.
It is an eerie mixture of Aboriginal folk customs and white man's greed and lust for revenge. Something of a study of abnormal psychology, it nevertheless turns on people's very natural and nasty feelings This book is a splendid combination of plot, setting and development.
Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aboriginals slaughtered by the Answerth ancestors. Whatever the reason, most people are content to give Venom House and its occupants a wide berth The strength of Upfield's accomplishment in this book is so overwhelming it makes the reader cower. The characters are well-developed, the conversation vernacular for the Australian outback, and the development compelling.
The story is the nearest Upfield comes to a story that would have made Edgar Allen Poe envious, Upfield maintains a kind of corpse-like humour which is very amusing The whole book is first-class Upfield and first-class crime fiction. Tracking her down in a town of twenty-eight thousand people is a job to tax even Detective Inspector Bonaparte's powers.
Fans of Arthur Upfield can now check out an official Facebook page set up by his grandson William Upfield, which already includes several finds from the Bonaparte Holdings author files. Absolutely recommended on this link. Bolinda have produced three fine unabridged audio books which can be ordered from anywhere in the world. You can sample each of these and order all Boneys on this link to Bolinda. Jan and Bill Ford pictured below with a box of Scribner editions are compiling a full bibliography of every variant printing of Arthur Upfield's detective series as published in English.
The most unusual side of this project is that they actually seek to have a copy of each of these books. They are currently searching for copies produced by J. Hamilton in England and would like to hear from you. Their contact is wpjzford centurylink. This link will enable you to locate the background places that Upfield used in creating the BONY classic crime novels.
Once you are in, just click on the one of the books on the left hand menu and Google maps does the rest! This amazing bookshop offers everything in print as it happens: All 42 ebooks! Oh here is Amazon's Chloe Haines last response for their January piracy Fourteen corrected Bony books are back on Amazon worldwide, with many more to come!
Our picture below shows Anne Upfield at Oliver Lodge photograph by Arthur Upfield, courtesy his grandson William Upfield Also of interest is this memory piece of a later family in Oliver Lodge, from an anonymous Bony fan, just received: My family bought the dilapidated house in approximately Absolutely recommended on this link Boney Audios out now! Website by Magicdust.
So there you go, the first step with Everything is to download the app. How safe is that? Meanwhile Amazon plunders Australian stories, like the Bony novels.
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