The Widows of Broome (1950) is a novel by Australian writer Arthur Upfield.
It is the thirteenth of the author's novels to feature his recurring character Detective Inspector Napoleon 'Bony' Bonaparte.
[1] Two widows are found strangled in the town of Broome, in northern Western Australia, with the killer leaving no clues.
[7] A reviewer in The Bulletin found they were "less surprised than disappointed" when the murderer is revealed, feeling that he had "not been woven into the fabric of the book sufficiently for us to believe that he could have taken so large a part in it".
in The Sydney Morning Herald noted, of "Bony" that time "has not diminished his remarkable powers nor the author's ability to devise an unusual plot".