Bücher von Arthur W. Upfield

Les meurtres du Murchison furent une série de trois meurtres, commis par un éleveur itinérant connu sous le nom de Snowy Rowles (né John Thomas Smith), près de la clôture anti-lapins de l'État d'Australie Occidentale au début des années 1930. Rowles utilisa la méthode de meurtre suggérée par l'auteur Arthur Upfield dans son roman policier, alors inédit, Les Sables de Windee, dans lequel est décrite une manière infaillible de se débarrasser d'un corps et ainsi de commettre le meurtre parfait. Ce récit de l'enquête et du procès est publié pour la première fois en français, dans une traduction de Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan.

Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the answers to the mystery? First published as a serial in the Perth Daily News in 1932, the real setting for the book is Mt Magnet, about 150k north of Perth, deep in gold country. 'It is somewhat less intense and less effective than the books in the Bony series, but it is successful as an early effort of Upfield's treatment of the Australian outback.' - Ray Browne, The Spirit of Australia

The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the south-east coast of Australia. Inspector Bonaparte wonders why a coffin is moved at night, who was the girl struggling with Dick Lake on the cliff tops, and what caused the Bully Buccaneers to deal in death. An ordinary policeman could afford to fail, but Bony, never...The story takes place at Split Point, 80 miles between Anglesea and Lorne... The story is enlivened - and made more stark by contrast - by a series of Dickensian characters who are unexcelled in Upfield and perhaps elsewhere as well. Despite the solemnity of the occasion for the visit, Upfield maintains a kind of corpse-like humour which is very amusing... The whole book is first-class Upfield and first-class crime fiction. - from The Spirit of Australia by Ray Browne