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1 3 y separately published work icon Lightning Ridge : The Land of Black Opals Lightning Ridge Ion L. Idriess , Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1985 Z140883 1940 single work autobiography
6 13 y separately published work icon Wings above the Diamantina Arthur W. Upfield , North Ryde : Arkon Paperbacks , 1985 1936 single work novel crime detective 'The discovery of a stolen red monoplane on the dry, flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things for different folks. For Elizabeth Nettlefold, the chance to nurse its strangely ill meant renewed purpose in life. For Dr Knowles, brilliant physician and town drunk, it meant the revival of a romantic dream. For some it meant a murder plan gone awry, and for Bonaparte, it meant one of the toughest cases of his career. ' (Publication summary)
7 2 y separately published work icon Venom House Arthur W. Upfield , North Ryde : Arkon Paperbacks , 1985 Z283537 1952 single work novel crime detective mystery
— Appears in: Vrazda musi pockat ; Vola kmena ; Prekliaty dom 1988; (p. Page numbers unavailable)

'The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House - perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. 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... until a couple of corpses turn up in the lake. Inspector Bonaparte has a sudden urge to get to knows the Answerths and their charming home much better... ' (Publication summary)
9 4 y separately published work icon Murder Must Wait Arthur W. Upfield , North Ryde : Arkon Paperbacks , 1984 1953 single work novel crime mystery detective
— Appears in: Vrazda musi pockat ; Vola kmena ; Prekliaty dom 1988; (p. Page numbers unavailable)
1 y separately published work icon White Moonlight Frederick J. Thwaites , Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1984 Z143703 1957 single work novel adventure romance 'Having survived years of brutality inflicted by sadist Japanese guards, David Barrington had every right to believe that peace would see him reunited with his young wife and their baby daughter, whom he had evacuated to Australia from Singapore a few weeks before Pearl Harbour.

'But Fate has other ideas; consequently, late in 1956, we meet a very embittered Barrington serving with Sheik Al Rasbu's private army in Trucial Oman.

'What made this once happy planter sell everything he possessed and become a soldier of fortune? Why does he drink to excess and challenge others' faith in women? What thoughts torment a mind when hope is a meaningless word, and dark suspicions become part of every hour?' (Publication summary)
2 y separately published work icon Shadows Over Rangoon Frederick J. Thwaites , Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1984 29230798 1941 single work novel adventure romance war literature
7 1 y separately published work icon The New Shoe Arthur W. Upfield , Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1984 Z1507432 1951 single work novel detective crime mystery
— Appears in: Bony a mys ; Po stope novej topanky ; Stari mladenci z Broken Hillu 1976; (p. Page numbers unavailable)

'The naked body of a man is discovered entombed in the wall of the Split Point Lighthouse on Australia's southeast coast; the murder is two months old, and the identity of the victim is unknown. Of Split Point's suspicious inhabitants, only Ed Penwarden, the coffin-maker, befriends Bony upon his arrival. As he delves into the case, Bony is curious to know why a coffin is moved in the night, who was the girl seen struggling with Dick Lake on the cliff top--and why the Bully Buccaneers came to deal in death.' (Publication summary)
10 y separately published work icon The White Savage Arthur W. Upfield , North Ryde : Arkon Paperbacks , 1984 29159365 1961 single work novel mystery detective crime
9 4 y separately published work icon The Lake Frome Monster Arthur W. Upfield , Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1984 29145374 1966 single work novel crime detective
— Appears in: Boni I Myshka [and] Leiik-Froumskiii Koshmar 1996;
1 2 y separately published work icon The Broken Melody Frederick J. Thwaites , Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1984 Z342677 1930 single work novel romance adventure
2 53 y separately published work icon Bush Studies Barbara Baynton , Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1983 Z820571 1902 selected work short story (taught in 12 units)

'Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism—for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness.

'Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Barbara Baynton’s short-story collection presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)
7 1 y separately published work icon The Bachelors of Broken Hill Gli scapoli di Broken Hill Arthur W. Upfield , North Ryde : Arkon Paperbacks , 1983 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)
1 y separately published work icon The Night Closed Down Frederick J. Thwaites , Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1983 Z1420857 1948 single work novel adventure romance
4 2 y separately published work icon The Mystery of Swordfish Reef Arthur W. Upfield , Sydney : Angus and Robertson Arkon Paperbacks , 1983 Z101751 1939 single work novel crime mystery detective 'An intriguing case for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside town. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing...and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing fishermen. It is quite clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol bullet. But by whom and why is for Bony to find out.' - (back cover, 1983 Arkon Paperback).
6 1 y separately published work icon The Will of the Tribe Arthur W. Upfield , North Ryde : Arkon Paperbacks , 1983 Z962007 1962 single work novel mystery detective crime
— Appears in: Vrazda musi pockat ; Vola kmena ; Prekliaty dom 1988; (p. Page numbers unavailable) This adventure of Inspector Napoleon (Bony) Bonaparte is set in North Western Australia; it deals with a corpse in a meteor crater and with vital information hidden behind the impassive mask of an aboriginal tribe, where only the half-black Bony has any hope of reaching it. The interplay between whites and blacks, from assimilated to wholly wild, is subtly and sensitively handled, and Bony emerges as one of the rare detective figures with genuine stature as a man. As in most Upfield novels, the geography, the geology and the cultural anthropology of Australia are living elements in the story (Cover, Collier 1984 ed.).
2 3 y separately published work icon The Bush Undertaker and Other Stories Henry Lawson , Colin Roderick (editor), London Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1982 Z386989 1970 selected work short story humour Includes a detailed bibliographic commentary on each story with particular attention to revisions.
1 y separately published work icon A Mountain for Monique Frederick J. Thwaites , Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1981 Z1425265 1964 single work novel adventure romance
2 y separately published work icon They Lived That Spring Frederick J. Thwaites , Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1981 Z1422816 1946 single work novel adventure romance war literature
1 y separately published work icon No Rainbow in the Sky Frederick J. Thwaites , Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1981 Z1414298 1959 single work novel adventure romance
1 y separately published work icon Beyond the Rainbow Frederick J. Thwaites , Sydney : Arkon Paperbacks , 1981 Z1414218 1961 single work novel adventure romance
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