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The Bachelors of Broken Hill

By: Arthur W. Upfield
Narrated by: Peter Hosking
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Peter Hosking's intense voice plays the full emotional range of this truly Australian mystery. Set in a remote mining town, The Bachelors of Broken Hill by Arthur W. Upfield tells the story of two unexplained murders. Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in to solve the crimes, but is left waiting for another killing when the clues lead nowhere. In chilling tones, award-winning Hosking delivers a lucid performance of this literary mystery, at once a novel and a document of Australian life and culture at the time it was written.

Publisher's Summary

A Golden Age mystery, from the incomparable Arthur Upfield. Arthur Upfield was the first non-American to be awarded full membership of the Mystery Writers Guild of America.

Among the 28,000 inhabitants of Broken Hill, there stalks a killer. Already two elderly bachelors have died horribly from cyanide poisoning. Now, two months later, Detective Inspector Napolean Bonaparte faces a cold trail - no motive, no clues. So Bony waits for what he believes to be inevitable - a third killing.

©1998 Arthur W. Upfield (P)2009 Bolinda Publishing

Critic Reviews

"Peter Hosking animates the characters...bringing the richness and vastness of the Australian continent vividly to life....Hosking enriches Upfield's characters with intonations ranging from heated thrill to deadly cold calculation." ( AudioFile, Earphones Award Winner)

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Great story

Very interesting if you have been to Broken Hill and can visualize the streets etc.

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Old one but good one

If you are looking for political correctness don't listen. If you want to hear a true reflection of the language and phrasing of the era listen on. Upfield draws beautiful and accurate word pictures of rural Australia. Refreshing to have a who done it that doesn't need graphic violence or sex to keep the story moving. Great to hear an Australian story read with an Australian accent and the correct pronunciation.

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Constant faults, but generally pleasing reading.

Mispronunciations and misplaced emphases too regular to be totally acceptable. But, the reader's voice quite pleasant.

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