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10 best books like Wings Above the Diamantina (Arthur W. Upfield): Castaway, Forty Years of Murder, Cooper's Creek, Coasting: A Private Voyage, Light Thickens, Pray for a Brave Heart, Cooking the Books, The Vines of Yarrabee, Hot Toddy: The True Story of Hollywood's Most Sensational Murder, Rumpole and the Golden Thread

Castaway
AuthorLucy Irvine
ISBN0394535421
'Writer seeks "wife" for a year on tropical island.'

The opportunity to escape from it all was irresistible. Lucy Irvine answered the advertisement -- and found herself alone on a remote desert island with a 'husband' she hardly knew.

Lucy Irvine fell in love with the seductive, if...
Forty Years of Murder
AuthorKeith Simpson
ISBN0586050388
'Find that whip and you've found your man.' Keith Simpson told the police, pointing to the diamond-pattern weave of the lash marks on the savagely mutilated body of Margery Gardner. The police found the whip in an attache case left in a railway cloakroom by Neville George Cleverly Heath.

Another...
Cooper's Creek
AuthorAlan Moorehead
ISBN1885283237
The first fully documented story of the strange drama - familiar to every Australian child - that took place in the remote interior of Australia 150 years ago. More than any other incident in Australia's history the story of Burke, the dashing but inexperienced expedition leader and Wills, his heroic...
Coasting: A Private Voyage
AuthorJonathan Raban
ISBN0375725938
Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage–which coincided...
Light Thickens
AuthorNgaio Marsh
ISBN0312973144
"Is this a dagger which I see before me..."
Four murders. Three witches. A fiendish lady. A homicidal husband. A ghost. No wonder "Macbeth "is considered such bad luck by theatre people that they won't mention its name out loud. But the new London production of "the Scottish play" promises to be a...
Pray for a Brave Heart
AuthorHelen MacInnes
ISBN0449210138
Enjoyed it immensely. An exciting story that had me reading into the very wee hours. The story seemed completely new to me, which is remarkable considering I know I read all of MacInnes' works more than once when I was younger. Great sense of location: I've travelled to just about all the locales (specifically...
Cooking the Books
AuthorKerry Greenwood
ISBN1742370217
Corinna Chapman, talented baker and reluctant investigator, is trying very hard to do nothing at all on her holidays. Her gorgeous Daniel is only intermittently at her side (he's roaming the streets tracking down a multi-thousand dollar corporate theft). Jason, her baking offsider, has gone off...
The Vines of Yarrabee
AuthorDorothy Eden
ISBN0340043091
It was her aristocratic beauty, her fine English breeding, and her impeccable social sense that first drew Gilbert to Eugenia and made him think of her as the perfect mistress of Yarrabee, the great plantation and vineyard he had wrested from the wilderness. But as Eugenia learns more of the ruthlessly...
Hot Toddy: The True Story of Hollywood's Most Sensational Murder
AuthorAndy Edmonds
ISBN0688080618
Organized Crime, goes Hollywood in this captivating mystery of the unsolved murder (or was it murder?) of well known comedic actress Thelma Todd. Author Andy Edmonds, does another outstanding job on this biography and true life crime. I felt as though I'd been transported back to 1930's Hollywood...
Rumpole and the Golden Thread
AuthorJohn Mortimer
ISBN0140063315
the title story manages to weave old-fashioned morality, English legalese, colonialism, and the need for African independence into an inoffensive little mystery. but is that a valediction or a condemnation? this take on a loaded topic is certainly tasteful and wryly amusing. but should it be?

in...
The Maul and the Pear Tree
AuthorP.D. James
ISBN0140131868
During a dark night in December 1811, in London's East End, a tradesman, his young wife, sleeping baby, and a shop boy were battered to death in their home. Days later, a pub owner, his wife, and a servant were similarly killed. No motive was found.
P.D. James, collaborating with a former colleageue,...
A Cast of Killers
AuthorSidney D. Kirkpatrick
ISBN0525243909
On February 1, 1922, the distinguished silent-film director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles bungalow by an unknown assailant. Reports of strange activities at the scene of the crime circulated soon after. When the police arrived, was the head of Paramount Studios burning...
The Fruit Palace
AuthorCharles Nicholl
ISBN0099274043
Charles Nicholl is on a quest for 'The Great Cocaine Story'. The time is the early eighties and the place - Colombia. The Fruit Palace is a little whitewashed café that legally dispenses tropical fruit juices, has another purpose as the meeting place for a variety of black market activities and the place...
Martin's Hundred
AuthorIvor Noël Hume
ISBN0813913233
Hume's book is non-fiction and is about the uncovering of an early 1600's settlement near Jamestown. The book is well written and can be enjoyed by both anthro/archeology buffs as well as mystery fans. The book details the perserverance and patience a researcher needs to discover the smallest particles...
Kittyhawk Down
AuthorGarry Disher
"A missing two-year-old girl, and the body of an unidentified drowning victim have brought Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis, of the Peninsula Police Force, to Bushrangers Bay at the Australian seaside not far from Melbourne. All is not idyllic in this resort community; far from it. Cars are stolen...
Evil Angels: The Case of Lindy Chamberlain
AuthorJohn Bryson
ISBN0671631632
Dry but fairly interesting story behind the film A Cry in the Dark, starring Meryl Streep. What lifts this book a bit above the regular true-crime nonfiction field is it's apparently written in true Australian English, which, apart from the interesting slang, gives you a little more insight into the...
The Dying Trade
AuthorPeter Corris
ISBN0449130304
For a change Private Investigator Cliff Hardy didn’t have a hangover – he had run out of booze and with it being a Sunday, he was unable to buy more. So come Monday morning he was clear-headed and minus the usual headache. When he received the telephone call from a man calling himself Bryn Gutteridge...
Don't Take Your Love to Town
AuthorRuby Langford Ginibi
In 'Don't Take Your Love To Town' Langford writes: 'we saw a big sign saying BUNDJALUNG NATIONAL PARK and I told him he was now in my territory'.

This is Ruby Langford's (Ginibi) first book and autobiography.

First published in 1988, Ruby worked for over 2 years with her editor Susan...
Charlie Chan Carries On
AuthorEarl Derr Biggers
ISBN0445402210
In Room 28 on the 3rd floor of Broome's super-respectable hotel in London, lay an American tourist, one Hugh Morris Drake, kindly automobile manufacturer from Detroit. He had been murdered in the night. Drake was a member of a round-the-world travel party, and before Inspector Duff of Scotland Yard...
Cyber Way
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
ISBN0441132456
Decent SF mystery, with the usual strange anachronisms found in so much near-future SF.

Detective Vernon Moody must investigate the death of an art collector, and the trail leads to the Navaho reservation in Arizona. Along the way, he learns more than he wants to know of Navaho religious practice...
The Death of a King
AuthorPaul Doherty
ISBN0312186517
The fate of kings is not always glorious....
Indeed, England's Edward II so angered his wife, her lover, and his subjects when he flaunted his male favorites that they revolted, deposed him, and made him prisoner. History records Edward II was eventually murdered most foully in Berkeley Castle...
Means of Evil and Other Stories
AuthorRuth Rendell
ISBN0099299003
Here are five classic Wexford cases that display his remarkable ingenuity — and that of his creator. Ranging from the more everyday crimes of passion and violence in quiet Kingsmarkham, to a bizarre murder in Yugoslavia, each is a case which challenges Detective Chief Inspector Wexford's considerable...
The Case of Jennie Brice
AuthorMary Roberts Rinehart
ISBN1582876533
I had a hard time getting through this one. The narrator was very intrusive into the story, inserting herself and her ideas into the clues, and didn’t take care to share the clues chronologically. It took me weeks to work my way through the book, and the way it doubled back on itself multiple times made...
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