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