The Bachelors of Broken Hill

Bony is called in to investigated a spate of poisonings (of a draper and metallurgist), the attempted poisoning of a bookmaker and the stabbing of a office-stenographer of the Broken Hill police. ==Location==

The action of the novel is set in and around Broken Hill, New South Wales. ==Publishing history==

Following the book's initial publication by Doubleday in 1950 • Heinemann, UK and Australia, 1958 • Pan Books, UK, 1966 • Eden Paperbacks, Australia, 1987 • ETT Imprint, Australia, 2019 and subsequent paperback, ebook and audio book editions. The novel was also translated into German and Italian in 1957, Spanish in 1958, Slovakian in 1976 and French in 2002. ==Critical reception==

A reviewer in The Bulletin found the crime was "melodramatically solved", noting that "what would be a first-rate mystery for another author is a little disappointing in Upfield." In The Tribune (Sydney) a reviewer called it a "classical murder mystery" that "should be in every collection of Australiana." ==See also==