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Stingaree

by E. W. Hornung

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1905
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  1. A Voice in the Wilderness

    39:27

  2. The Black Hole of Glenranald

    47:31

  3. ''To the Vile Dust''

    36:55

  4. A Bushranger at Bay

    28:22

  5. The Taking of Stingaree

    26:26

  6. The Honor of the Road

    28:49

  7. The Purification of Mulfera

    28:37

  8. A Duel in the Desert

    32:10

  9. The Villain-Worshipper

    47:33

  10. The Moth and The Star

    36:05

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Ten linked stories follow Stingaree, a dapper Australian bushranger who wears a monocle, holds up mail coaches, and outwits the mounted police across the Riverina and north-eastern Victoria. Hornung gives him the bearing of a gentleman and a code to match: he robs with style, dresses well, and boasts that he has never killed a man. Settlers, troopers, station-owners, and a few visitors from abroad drift through episodes that run by turns comic, romantic, and genuinely tense. Published in 1905 by the creator of Raffles, the gentleman thief, the book carries the same fascination with the charming criminal, only moved from London drawing rooms to the sunburnt Australian bush. It reads as a colonial cousin to those famous crime stories, told with wit and a clear fondness for its rogue.

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E. W. Hornung

Ernest William Hornung invented A. J. Raffles, the cricketing gentleman thief whose burglaries reach us through his admiring accomplice Bunny Manders. Raffles arrived in an 1898 magazine story and was collected the following year as The Amateur Cracksman, with The Black Mask in 1901 and A Thief in the Night in 1905.

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Book facts

First published
1905
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
186
Language
English
Formats
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