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The Battling Prophet (Inspector Bonaparte Mysteries Book 20) by [Arthur W. Upfield]

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Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate weather forecasts had helped farmers all over Australia, lived nearby. Ben died after a three-week drinking binge and a doctor certified death as due to delirium tremens - but Bony's host insists that whatever Ben died of it wasn't alcohol...

This is an unusual crime story for Upfield, but, revealing the vast range of his interests, it is one of the better ones ... Constable Alice McGorr returns and is at her strongest and most profane best ... she is extraordinary, and should be appreciated as one of his major creations. - from The Spirit of Australia by Ray Browne.

Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives - BBC

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Peter is a voiceover artist and actor with over thirty years of stage, television, and film credits, in Australia and in Europe. He has toured Australia with a variety of stage shows and appeared on TV in Something in the Air, Ponderosa, and Last Man Standing. Film appearances include Pride (shot in Japan), Siam Sunset, The Wog Boy, Razor Eaters, and Personality Plus. For Bolinda Audio he has also narrated Arthur Upfield's Venom House, Winds of Evil, and Mr Jelly's Business. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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'Bony ‒ a unique figure among top-flight detectives.' -- BBC

'Napoleon Bonaparte, my best detective.' -- The Daily Express --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

ASIN : B0897TVJ2V
Publisher : ETT Imprint; 2020th edition (1 June 2020)
Language : English
File size : 347 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 172 pages

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The Battling Prophet

Reviewed in Australia on 27 October 2019

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Great book, I very much enjoyed, as always with these Bony series books, the intrigue and plot of Arthur Upfield's writings.

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Brian Barden

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Reviewed in Australia on 7 July 2018

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as usual a great read

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Tressa

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2017

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Authur Upfield does not 'date', His books show a real understanding of Australia

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janeheathfield

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2017

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Another "Boney" Australian aborigine detective classic. The series is addictive.

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Another great novel. Delivery and Condition fine

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 February 2017

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Another great novel. Delivery and Condition fine.

Peter A. Clark

Fabulous Bony!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 December 2010

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I am a bookworm and found this volume to be really splendid. It was in terrific condition and a thunderously good read! Fabulous value too!

Mike Billington author of Murder in the Rainy Season

A 5-star novel and a pleasure to read

Reviewed in the United States on 4 June 2018

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Spies, warring law enforcement agencies, government misconduct, betrayal, greed, and - yes - murder are all featured in "The Battling Prophet," which is one of the best of author Arthur Upfield's Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mystery novels.
Bonaparte is one of fiction's most interesting detectives. Half white, half Aborigine; he is constantly caught between both cultures in an Australia that is intensely racist. He is unconventional, doesn't seem to give a damn about authority, and he is single-minded in his pursuit of his criminal targets. Over the course of his career he has been suspended, occasionally fired, and often reprimanded but - as he notes in this novel - he is always reinstated because, in the end, he "brings home the bacon" by solving the cases he is involved in.
In this instance, that means finding out who murdered a controversial meteorologist whose ability to accurately predict the weather not only helps Australian farmers but could also help foreign governments plan war strategies.
Upfield was a prolific writer but he was not just that. He worked as a stockman (the Australian version of the American cowboy), a miner, and a government official among other things. His travels around Australia and his familiarity with its ethnic minorities as well as its white majority helped make his characters very realistic. He was a skillful plotter and his narrative is rich in detail.
All of those elements are nicely blended in this novel and that makes it a pleasure to read.

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