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The Mystery of Swordfish Reef
- An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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- Tracey
- 08-31-14
bony
If you could sum up The Mystery of Swordfish Reef in three words, what would they be?
a good mystery another upfield tresure
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Mystery of Swordfish Reef?
the sailfish scene and the way you can imagine the fishing
What about Peter Hosking’s performance did you like?
the way he portraye,s his many parts of the story charicters
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
yes
2 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Decent Upfield Mystery
Narration: As usual, this narrator is top notch. I have trouble understanding some of the Aussie accent, but that's just me.
Story: Not quite up to Upfield snuff, but nonetheless entertaining. Story moves quickly. Nothing profound. Good light read/listen.
Writing: Well written prose. Excellent dialogue. So appreciated that there are absent so many "he saids" and she "saids."
1 person found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Patricia L. Kennedy
- 01-27-20
Bony goes to the sea
This is set in a fishing community in SE Australia. A nice change from the outback mysteries.
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- Delsie Mowbray
- 05-24-20
One of Bony’s best
Bony faces a totally different environment whilst revealing even more of his complex nature and mixed race. I’ve read them all and this is one of the best. Peter Hosking is - as always - perfect as narrator
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Retriever470
- 04-06-15
Great story told with vigour
If you could sum up The Mystery of Swordfish Reef in three words, what would they be?
Engaging, logical, satisfactory
What did you like best about this story?
Bony using the talents of the local fishermen to read the sea as easily as he reads the bush.
What about Peter Hosking’s performance did you like?
I wasn't sure at first about his delivery, but he really grew on me. He has a different tone for each character and makes an excellent job of pacing the narration, too.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Engaging characters who bring the story alive.
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- Abx
- 07-05-21
Bony Brilliance
great mystery as always. Always enjoy Napoleon Bonaparte mysteries with the back drop set against beautiful Australia
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- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
On a deserted dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep has been abandoned...enter Inspector Bonaparte. Sinister stones....on a lonely dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep is found. In it is Constable Stenhouse - shot dead. His Aboriginal tracker has disappeared, and clues are thin on the ground. Enter Inspector Bonaparte, who soon realises that he is not alone in his search for the criminal. The local Aboriginal people are seeking vengeance, too....
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4 out of 5 stars
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As usual for upfield, good.
- By William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and camptalized M) on 05-23-19
By: Arthur Upfield
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Devil's Steps
- An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery
- By: Arthur Upfield
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte leaves his familiar outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort on special assignment for Military Intelligence. Although out of his element among city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues and catch a murderer - providing the ingredients for another fascinating Arthur Upfield mystery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Classic Mystery
- By L. Egerton on 05-11-09
By: Arthur Upfield
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The Bone Is Pointed
- By: Arthur Upfield
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care. But Bony is determined to follow the cold trail and smoke out some answers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Click "next" if you are on the fence for this one
- By Dennis on 04-12-13
By: Arthur Upfield
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Winds of Evil
- An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery, Book 8
- By: Arthur W. Upfield
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
The incomparable Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is back - and now he must solve one of his most baffling cases. When Bony sets out to investigate two bizarre murders at Wirragatta Station, deep in the Australian Outback, all the odds are against him. The crimes were committed a year before, the scent is now cold, and any surviving clues have been confused by a bumbling policeman. As Bony gets closer to the trail, the mysterious murderer sets out to stop him. Can Bony stop the killer first?
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Best!
- By Cmg on 07-29-14
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Man of Two Tribes
- An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery, Book 21
- By: Arthur W. Upfield
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Myra Thomas, accused of murdering her philandering husband, is found not guilty by a sympathetic jury. But while travelling from Adelaide to Perth on the Transcontinental Railway express, she mysteriously disappears during the overnight journey across the vast, featureless desert. Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte takes the case and sets off to search for her over the flat wasteland of the Nullabor Plain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bony
- By Glenecollins on 02-27-15
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Venom House
- An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery
- By: Arthur Upfield
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery. The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of "Venom House". Perhaps that's because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aborigines slaughtered by Answerth ancestors. Or perhaps it's just because the Answerth household is such a strange one.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good listen. Makes you regret leaving the car.
- By A. Raymond on 07-27-15
By: Arthur Upfield
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Death of a Lake
- An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery
- By: Arthur Upfield
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Napoleon Bonaparte returns in this classic Australian mystery from the classic Bony series. One night Raymond Gillen, shortly after winning over £12,000 in a lottery, went for a late-night swim in the waters of Lake Otway and never came back. No one doubted that he drowned; the main question on everyone's lips was, what happened to the money? Three years later drought is taking its toll, and Lake Otway is close to death, losing the last of its water. Five men and two women wait to find out whether the shrinking lake will uncover Gillen's body.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Installment
- By William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and camptalized M) on 05-06-19
By: Arthur Upfield
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Bony and the White Savage
- An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery
- By: Arthur Upfield
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-timer Karl Mueller is roused from his drink-sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees on waking (or he thinks he sees) is enough to make him stiffen with fear, and more than enought to worry the police into calling for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Australian Yarn
- By Book lover on 11-11-13
By: Arthur Upfield
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An Author Bites the Dust
- By: Arthur Upfield
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
A cat ... a ping-pong ball ... a drunken gardener ... With these slight clues to go on Detective-Inspector Bonaparte investigates the mysterious death of famous author, Mervyn Blake, who dies an agonizing death late one night in his writing room. But how did he die? No one knows. No one that is until Bony's acute observation of human nature uncovers the murderer - and the method used to kill Blake.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Location, location, location
- By Kindle Customer on 05-29-10
By: Arthur Upfield
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2 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic performance of a quick thriller
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 19,376
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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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