Arthur Upfield Books in Order

Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder, escapes from gaol, and vanishes into the far north-west. Her blinded fiancé and his adventurous brother set out from Melbourne to find her and clear the truth.

Bony's first case takes him to a Darling River sheep station after the death of an Aboriginal man. Family secrets, divided loyalties, and station life shape the mystery that launched the series.

After killing his wife's lover, Arnold Dudley flees justice and remorse to a lonely Australian beach. His self-punishment begins to crack when two women try to draw him back into life.

Luke Marks disappears after leaving Windee Station, and the local explanation looks too easy to Bony. A small detail in a photograph sends him into the sands after a carefully hidden crime.

This early standalone thriller moves through Cook and Eucla on the Nullarbor, where isolation sharpens a kidnapping plot. Upfield uses railway settlements, open country, and frontier tension to keep the chase moving.

Set on a far western New South Wales station, this standalone novel follows a three-year drought and a troubled marriage under pressure. Upfield turns harsh weather into a test of character and survival.

In Depression-era Melbourne, a racehorse that might have won the Cup is killed, and jockey Tom Pink digs into poison, betting scams, blackmail, and underworld danger around Australia's most famous race.

Upfield gives his own account of the real Murchison Murders, a case linked to a murder method he had discussed while shaping The Sands of Windee. It is true crime with a strange literary shadow.

A stolen red monoplane is found on a dry lake bed with a paralysed young woman inside and no pilot in sight. Bony follows the impossible scene into a dangerous Queensland mystery.

Bony investigates the disappearance of George Loftus after his wrecked car is found near Western Australia's rabbit-proof fence. The odd habits of amateur criminologist Mr. Jelly may hold the key.

In a dusty outback town, a killer known as the Strangler strikes during wind and sandstorms. Bony must understand the weather, the town's fears, and the mind behind the pattern.

Jack Anderson disappears after his horse returns riderless, and nobody seems eager to mourn him. Bony takes up the cold trail in Queensland station country, where fear and old grudges sit close together.

A fishing boat vanishes off Bermagui on a calm day, and a trawler later hauls up a grim clue from the sea. Bony enters big-game fishing country to untangle a coastal mystery.

Bony is on his way to a remote station when a plane bombs a police car and kills the local sergeant. The trail leads into burning country and a killer who attacks from the air.

A swagman is found dead near the small town of Merino, and one detail in a police photograph catches Bony's eye. He follows the clue into a lonely landscape of huts, tracks, and suspicion.

On assignment near Melbourne and the Dandenong Ranges, Bony leaves his usual outback ground for a mountain resort mystery. A body at Wideview Chalet forces him to read city manners and bush signs together.

At a literary house party, famous author and critic Mervyn Black is found murdered among guests who know the art of character assassination. Bony must read vanity, jealousy, and performance as clues.

When two young women disappear while hiking in the mountains, Bony is called into rugged country where silence and distance protect the guilty. The case blends outdoor danger with a tightly held secret.

Elderly bachelors are being poisoned in Broken Hill, and witnesses keep describing a different woman near each death. Bony enters the mining city and uses unlikely helpers to sort pattern from misdirection.

A body is found sealed inside the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the Victorian coast. Bony investigates coffins moved by night, cliffside secrets, and a new shoe that points toward murder.

Two wealthy widows are strangled in Broome, and the killer leaves almost nothing behind. Bony poses as a psychiatrist, studies the town's widows, and prepares a trap before another woman dies.

The Answerth mansion sits on an island in a man-made lake, surrounded by dead trees and old fear. Bony investigates deaths tied to the strange household, where family history feels poisonous.

In Mitford, baby boys are being stolen, and the latest kidnapping leaves a mother dead beside an empty cot. Bony must find the missing children first, while the murder waits its turn.

Raymond Gillen swims in a remote station lake and vanishes. Years later, as drought drains the water away, Bony arrives in disguise and waits for the dying lake to give up its secret.

In the Kimberley, Bony faces a puzzle of strange clues, local rivalries, and a tracker who may be as sharp as he is. The case turns on patience, landscape, and details others miss.

Myra Thomas disappears from a train crossing the Nullarbor, apparently dressed only in nightclothes. With camels and a dog, Bony searches the plain and finds a stranger, darker mystery beneath the limestone.

Ben Wickham's uncanny weather forecasts make him useful, feared, and hated. When his death is written off too easily, Bony suspects murder and searches for the calculations powerful people want to control.

A woman is murdered, her young daughter disappears, and suspicion falls on wandering Ole Fren Yorky. Bony follows the trail into Lake Eyre country, where local knowledge and a rising lake change everything.

At a drought-stricken station near Lake Jane, two men have been brutally killed. Bony faces a hard landscape, frightened witnesses, and a case where every track seems to lead toward deeper trouble.

In the remote Western Australian town of Daybreak, three murders have left the locals wary and silent. Bony arrives as horse-breaker Nat Bonnar, watching the town until its secrets begin to shift.

An excise officer has been murdered in Cork Valley while investigating illicit stills. Bony goes undercover among close-knit Irish families, where loyalty, smuggling, and local pride make the truth hard to reach.

In the forests and caves of south-western Western Australia, Bony hunts Marvin Rhudder, a dangerous fugitive with a respectable past. This is a tense pursuit story built around tracking, psychology, and rugged coastal country.

A body appears inside a remote meteor crater, with no tracks to explain how it got there. In Hall's Creek country, Bony must listen to local stories, station tensions, and old laws to find the killer.

Violent William Lush vanishes as the Darling River begins to rise, threatening to wash away every clue. Bony must decide whether he is hunting a fugitive, a victim, or a killer hidden in flood country.

A photographer is found dead near Lake Frome, and local talk blames a fearsome feral camel. Bony works through heat, silence, and vanishing evidence to uncover the human truth behind the outback legend.

In an isolated Western Australian valley, Harry Tremayne arrives at Bowgada cattle station to learn what happened to his missing brother. The search pulls him into station secrets, danger, and a mystery the country itself seems to guard.

This biography follows Frank Cobbold from a boyhood at sea to his hard-won life as a trader, surveyor, station manager, and pioneering pastoralist in Queensland. Upfield tells a frontier story of endurance, luck, and stubborn independence.

This first collection of Upfield's short works gathers bush yarns, crime stories, comedies, and adventure pieces from the 1920s and 1930s, including the only known short story featuring Bony.

This companion collection brings together more of Upfield's shorter writing about Australian life, travel, danger, and bush characters. It is a useful side path for readers who know him mainly through Bony.

A further gathering of Upfield's shorter pieces, this volume offers more snapshots of the country, characters, and hazards that shaped his fiction. It is ideal for readers interested in his range beyond novels.

Upfield's autobiography looks back on his years tramping through Australia, the real bush characters he met, and the experiences that fed the Bony novels. It is both memoir and a map of his creative life.

Collected from Upfield's Walkabout magazine pieces, this volume travels through Cooper Creek, Lake Frome, Broome, Bermagui, rabbit-proof fence country, and other settings that later fed the atmosphere of his fiction.