The Bachelors of Broken Hill

By Arthur W. Upfield

Book Overview

When two elderly bachelors were poisoned with cyanide, a strange woman was on the scene each time - but now she has disappeared, leaving no trace. Tracking her down in a town of twenty-eight thousand people is a job to tax even Detective Inspector Bonaparte's powers. He will need the unorthodox assistance of burglar Jimmy the Screwsman and a lightning-sketch artist, as well as all the deductive and tracking skills at his command, as he trails a killer no-one has seen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925706672
• ISBN13: 9781925706673
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: ETT Imprint
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Bachelors of Broken Hill

Arthur Upfield's Bony books are a wonderful mixture of Australian life, natural history, and subtle humor. The Bachelors of Broken Hill is typical of his stories, though it is set in a remote mining town as opposed to his usual outback settings. Everyone where I live who reads one book reads them all. We pass copies back and forth as many are out of print and reread them aloud to each other. I keep a map of Australia handy to follow each story and have visited some of the places mentioned in his books. He brings alive a sense of intellectual curiousity as you follow Bony's clues to put enough evidence together for an iron clad verdict.