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The Bachelors of Broken Hill

By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
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 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.©1958 Bonaparte Holdings Ltd. (P)2000 Bolinda Publishing Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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Editor reviews

Peter Hosking's intense voice plays the full emotional range of this truly Australian mystery. Set in a remote mining town, The Bachelors of Broken Hill by Arthur W. Upfield tells the story of two unexplained murders. Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in to solve the crimes, but is left waiting for another killing when the clues lead nowhere. In chilling tones, award-winning Hosking delivers a lucid performance of this literary mystery, at once a novel and a document of Australian life and culture at the time it was written.

Critic reviews

"Arthur Upfield has an extraordinary gift. He has created a character, the half-caste Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, who steps alive off the page." (The Times)
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The pace of Upfield's books is suited to hot Australian days, but the evocative portrait of the country in the late 1940s that he weaves and the growing tension of the plot means there's no danger of your nodding off. Wonderfully read. More of Upfield's work - once so popular - would be most welcome.

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