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Arthur William Upfield was an English-Australian writer, best known for his works of detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte of the Queensland Police Force, a mixed-race Indigenous Australian.

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Arthur W. Upfield: A Brief Biographical Sketch

Andrew Milnor, Glenn Bartle Professor of Social Theory, State University of New York at Binghamton

William Arthur Upfield was born on 1 September 1890, at 87-88 North Street, Gosport, and christened in the Gosport Methodist Church on 9 October of that year. Though by the time he arrived in Australia he was Arthur W. Upfield, he was christened with the first two names in reverse order, the order changed because (a) there was another William Upfield and (b) the locals would ask for William, creating confusion. Informally, the order was changed.

He was raised mostly by his grandmother and two great aunts, ostensibly because there was no room in the eleven room house-cum-draper�s shop run by his father. He was very sick as a child, an illness which went into remission and probably began again in his late adolescent. On the advice of his doctor — go to a dry climate or "I shall not be responsible for your life in three years" — and with the full approval of his father, he emigrated to Australia in late 1910, where he bega

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Arthur Upfield

Name of bookSettingEnglish language publication Title of German translation and date of publicationThe House of CainHutchinson, London, n.d. [1928];

1st U.S. Edition: Dorrance, Philadelphia, 1929; 2nd US Edition: (pirated) Dennis McMillan, San Francisco, 1983.

The Barrakee MysteryNear Wilcannia, New South WalesHutchinson, London, n.d. [1929];

2nd UK Edition: Heinemann, London, 1965; 1st US Edition: Doubleday/Crime Club, New York, 1965 - as The Lure of the Bush.

Bony und der Bumerang, 1966The Beach of Atonement Dongara, Western AustraliaHutchinson, London, n.d. [1930].The Sands of Windee'Windee' is a fictional sheep station near Milparinka _, a hundred and fifty miles (240 km) north of Broken Hill. Windee covered 1 300 000 acres (5,300 km²) of land and ran 70 000 sheep.Hutchinson, London, n.d. [1931];

1st Australian Edition: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1958; 2nd UK Edition: Angus & Robertson, London, 1959.

Ein glücklicher Zufall, 1961A Royal AbductionHutchinson, London, [1932]

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UPFIELD Arthur William
soldier and author 1888-1964

Arthur Upfield was born on 1 September 1890 to draper James Oliver Upfield at Gosport Hampshire. He served with the Hampshire Yeomanry for five years while studying to become a real estate agent, but failing exams was sent to Australia in 1910 where became an apprentice surveyor.

In 1914 he enlisted as a driver in 5 Coy AASC (1 LH Bde Train), serving in with the AIF in Egypt, Gallipoli, England and France. On return from Gallipoli he married nurse Anne Douglas in Alexandria in November 1915. He was transferred to UK 1916 where he bacame a clerk in AIF HQ, rising to the rank of lance-sergeant. Seeking further active service, he was posted to 17 Coy AASC in France in 1918, but was invalided back to UK a month later. He took his discharge in England in September 1919.

Returning to Australia with his wife and son in 1921 he became a bushman, travelling extensively and absorbing aboriginal culture which provided the basis for his successful books of detective fiction featuring half-caste Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonap