Wings Above the Diamantina
The 1941 Radio Serial

This Boney mystery is set in western Queensland and very much describes my current countryside - sand dunes and dry river beds lined with river gums or coolabahs. I wanted that right then as this was an audiobook as I toured eastern US in the fall; the complete opposite. Hearing an Aussie accent amo......more

Elizabeth Nettlefold and her father John make a startling discovery while out on a tour of inspection of the land her father manages as a cattle breeder. Resting on the dry lake bed of Emu lake is a shiny red monoplane. There are no footprints leading away from the plane and at first it appears that......more

As a teen, I was inspired and enthralled by Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony). So much so, I read all of his books I could get my hands on. I think my especial favourite was The Devil's Steps. I was intrigued by Bony, a character living between two cultures, an indigenous Australian with bush know......more

This is one of a series about Detective Napoleon Bonaparte. No, not the French Napoleon. This Bonaparte lives in Australia. He is a half caste - half white, half aborigine. The books were written in the early 1900's so they remind me of Holmes. The unique thing in these books are the settings. Bony i......more

Bony improves with further acquaintance. His author seems to have got over his own racial issues, regarding both blacks and whites, in a great measure. He has stopped describing Bony as "childlike" and comparing the two halves of his genes and their supposed effects on his intelligence, which helped......more