Originally published in 1905, these are the adventures of a Australian bushranger in the Riverina and North Eastern Victoria, where the author lived for a period of his life. Stingaree was made into a movie of the same name, and earlier was filmed as a 12 episode silent film series.

E. W. Hornung was friendly with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and married his sister. He is best known for having taken his brother-in-law’s detective pair, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, and reincarnated them on the wrong side of the law as Raffles and Bunny, who pursued the business of getting a living by the entirely logical method of stealing it.