Novaro Novaro i(A103543 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. Editorial Novaro-Mexico; Editorial Novaro)
Born: Established: Mexico City,
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Mexico,
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10 3 y separately published work icon The Bushman Who Came Back Arthur W. Upfield , London Melbourne : Heinemann , 1957 Z209419 1957 single work novel crime mystery detective
— Appears in: Bestseller Mystery Magazine , April vol. 3 no. 2/226 1961; (p. 4-109)
— Appears in: Trikrat Napoleon Bonaparte 1977; (p. Page numbers unavailable)
7 3 y separately published work icon The Battling Prophet Arthur W. Upfield , 1955 Z1363904 1955 single work novel crime mystery detective

'Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate forecasts have helped farmers all over Australia, until recently lived nearby. But he has died after a three week drinking binge and a doctor certified death resulting from delirium tremens. Yet Bony's host insists that whatever Ben died of, it wasn't alcohol.' (Publication summary)
4 7 y separately published work icon Man of Two Tribes Arthur W. Upfield , London Melbourne : Heinemann , 1956 Z152501 1956 single work novel crime detective Bony discovers a group of people imprisoned in limestone underground caves and must free them and lead them to safety.
7 1 y separately published work icon The Bachelors of Broken Hill Gli scapoli di Broken Hill Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Doubleday , 1950 Z143676 1950 single work novel crime mystery detective
— Appears in: Bony a mys ; Po stope novej topanky ; Stari mladenci z Broken Hillu 1976; (p. Page numbers unavailable)

'Among the 28,000 inhabitants of Broken Hill there stalks a killer. Already two elderly bachelors have died horribly from cyanide poisoning. Now, two months later, Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte faces a cold trail - no motive, no clues. So Bony waits for what he believes to be inevitable - a third killing. ' (Publication summary)
8 4 y separately published work icon Murder Must Wait Arthur W. Upfield , 1954 Z1507440 1953 single work novel crime mystery detective
— Appears in: Vrazda musi pockat ; Vola kmena ; Prekliaty dom 1988; (p. Page numbers unavailable)
6 1 y separately published work icon The Mountains Have a Secret Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Doubleday , 1948 Z202956 1948 single work novel crime detective
— Appears in: Detective Fiction , January vol. 1 no. 2 1949; (p. 43-64) 'Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte travels to Victoria, where two young women have disappeared while hiking in the Grampians. Not long after the search for the girls is called off, a local detective is found shot dead.

'Bony visits the hotel the women were last seen at, and meets the hotel's unsavoury proprietor. The resulting encounter propels Bony into an investigation which almosts costs him his life.' (Publication summary)

 
1 y separately published work icon Ciencia y Fantasía Science and Fantasy 1956 Mexico City : Novaro , 1956-1957 Z1856040 1956 periodical fantasy science fiction (1 issues) This Mexican version of the US Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction comprised 14 editions published between 1956 and 1957.
7 3 y separately published work icon Death of a Lake Arthur W. Upfield , 1954 London Melbourne : Heinemann , 1954 Z86178 1954 single work novel crime detective mystery

'On a vast sheep station in the outback, Raymond Gillen goes swimming in the lake one night and is never seen again. After the failure of local police to solve the mystery, bony arrives disguised as a horse-breaker, and uncovers a story of sexual tension and murder. The lake is evaporating in the intense drought - only when it dies will the mystery be solved. Apart from its strengths as a crime novel, this is probably the best book ever written about drought in Australia.' (Publication summary) 
4 5 y separately published work icon An Author Bites the Dust Arthur W. Upfield , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1948 Z62594 1948 single work novel crime mystery detective
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