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Crime --- Detective and mystery stories, Australian. --- Nouvelles policières australiennes --- Crimes et criminels --- Roman policier --- 19e siècle --- 1900-1945 --- Australie --- Nouvelles

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Here is Arthur Upfield's own story, the author of those remarkable murder mysteries set in odd corners of Australia and featuring the Aboriginal sleuth named 'Bony'. A detailed dossier compiled with the cheerful candour of the subject himself. An Englishman by birth, Arthur Upfield tried his luck in Australia. After a short spell as a waiter in Adelaide, Upfield felt drawn towards the Interior where he became a boundary-rider, offside-driver, cattle-drover, opal-gouger, rabbit-trapper, vermin fence patroller and manager of a camel station, drifting through the strange terrains and unusual company which were later to become the subject of his novels. He also tells how he unwittingly provided a real outback murderer with a 'fool-proof' method of disposing of a body, and who was the original on whom the character of 'Bony' was based.

Literature and stories - Authors - Fiction. --- Crime - Criminology. --- History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous. --- Race relations - Representation - Literature. --- Law enforcement - Police. --- Authors, Australian --- Novelists, Australian --- Detective and mystery stories, Australian --- History and criticism. --- Upfield, Arthur, --- Queensland (Qld)