Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 6
Introduction 7
1 Pearce the Peckish 11
2 Chasing Brady 16
3 Strictly Cash 22
4 Finding the Castaway 29
5 The Butcher 48
6 Search Party to Nowhere 53
7 Edward Evans' Secret 58
8 Waiting for Burke and Wills 74
9 Captain Moonlite 99
10 Australia's First Whodunnit 104
11 The Lost VC 109
12 The Loch Ard Disaster 116
13 The Day the Constable Came 127
14 The Last Bushranger 144
15 The Dangerous Persuasive Woman 149
16 Freud and the Outback Postie 160
17 'Killarney Kate' 165
18 The Original All Black 171
19 Midwife Mary 176
20 Lady of the Outback 180
21 The Sentimental Bloke 185
22 Lord of the Ring 190
23 The Deserter's VC 194
24 Very Alicia Mary 205
25 Madge, the Cop with no Badge 210
26 Runaway Nun 216
27 The Sydney Harbour Horseman 220
28 Death on Alligator Creek 225
29 The Missing Plane 240