Philip Morton in the
Southern Highland News (Australia) notes the 50th anniversary of the death of British-born author
Arthur Upfield, an important figure in Australian crime fiction as the creator of aboriginal detective Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte. Bony debuted in
The Barrakee Mystery (1929, aka
The Lure of the Bush) and appeared in 29 works. An Edgar nominee for
The Bushman who Came Back (1957), he influenced authors such as Tony Hillerman. Assessing Upfield's place in Australian and international literature is
Investigating Arthur Upfield: A Centenary Collection of Critical Essays. The TV movie
3 Acts of Murder (2009) delves into the fatal results when a friend of Upfield used one of the author's fictional methods of murder.
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