An Author Bites the Dust (An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery) - Softcover

Upfield, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0020549008 ISBN 13: 9780020549000

Publisher: Collier Books, 1987

Synopsis

An Author Bites the Dust takes super-sleuth Napoleon Bonaparte to the house party of Mervyn Black, famous author and critic, where the host is found murdered among his literary friends.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

From AudioFile:

The delightfully eccentric Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte pretends to be a South African author to investigate the murder of a prominent Australian writer. There are minimal clues, a situation that makes the challenge he faces that much greater. Narrator Peter Hosking cheerfully presents humor and gravity in a variety of Australia's accents in a most appealing conversational style. A cat called Mr. Pickwick assists Napoleon with examining ping-pong balls filled with coffin dust. As the tragic causes of the murder are revealed, 1930s-1950s Australia and its attitudes towards Aborigines and women are revealed. This fascinating entry is part of Bolinda's Napoleon Bonaparte series. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Collier Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0020549008
• ISBN 13: 9780020549000
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 224