Arthur Upheld—The Raw

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Arthur Upheld—The Raw Material of Boney

EVERY writer of any note sh have a biography—if foil other reason, then to satisfy curiosity of his female reader Arthur Upheld, of the well-kn full-flavoured Napoleon Bona]j detective stories, has now obli§ or someone called Jessica Hawk obliged for him, with Follow' : Dust, written, it is stated, with collaboration of the subject mi himself.

The book is so well done the produces another bout of curie Who is Jessica Hawk? Not even jacket-flap gives a clue to mystery.

The book has many surprises the least of which is the fact there was a real prototype of pedantic Boney—Leon Wood name—who actually writes an iJ Auction to the story.

Arthur was the first of five of a prosperous shop-keepe;; Gosport, England. Towards the of 1910, his father said to “You are going out to Australl try farming. I have come to 100 Australia as the ideal countr: you. It is so far away you will I save enough money to returni was correct —although Arthur return on the King’s business tween 1914-1918.

Arthur duly arrived in Ade: determined to become a bourn rider, although he had small; what a boundary rider was, oi However, to the agencies to v he presented himself he die look like the raw material foi Great Outback. He had to bic time by taking a job as fourthi at Adelaide’s best hotel.

But time and persistence cam anything down, and in 1911 hi. on his way to Momba Station Wilcannia, in a Cobb and coach.