Upfield, Arthur W.

Country/Region:: United Kingdom, Australia
Born:: September 1, 1890
Dead:: February 13, 1964
Genres:: Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature

The presentation was last updated June 29, 2022

Arthur W. Upfield is one of a small number of internationally famous Australian crime writers thanks to his novels about one of the most discussed and academically studied non-white detectives in crime fiction, the half-cast detective inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte (Bony's father was white and his mother an aborigine).

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The article written by: Johan Wopenka. Published: August 27, 2012
Last update: September 19, 2017 by Bibbi Wopenka

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