Arthur Upfield Reading Order

6 series · 43 books

Arthur Upfield was an English-Australian mystery writer whose most enduring creation was Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, a part-Aboriginal Queensland police officer whose cases became iconic figures in detective fiction throughout the twentieth century. His Bonaparte series, spanning decades and multiple decades of publication, established Upfield as a significant voice in Australian crime writing and earned international recognition that led to television adaptations in the 1970s and 1990s. Beyond his detective novels, Upfield also contributed short fiction and non-fiction works to his literary output, demonstrating versatility across multiple forms of crime and mystery writing.