Jane Smith

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Captain Starlight: The Strange But True Story of a Bushranger, Imposter and MurdererPaperback, 7 September 2016

Captain Starlight: The Strange But True Story of a Bushranger, Imposter and Murderer
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Print Length
300 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Big Sky Publishing
Date Published
7 Sep 2016
ISBN-10
1925275302
ISBN-13
9781925275308

Description

Perth, 1899: a respected public servant mistakes a bottle of cyanide for his heart medicine, swallows it and dies. Months later on the other side of the country, a prisoner of Pentridge gaol with the same name as the deceased reads of the inquest with alarm. He writes to the coroner with his suspicions: the supposedly upstanding government accountant was an impostor - an ex-con - who had stolen his identity and deceived people at the highest level. The claims sent the authorities into a spin; who really was the deceased? Was it possible he was the bushranger known as 'Captain Starlight' who, thirty years earlier, had callously murdered a policeman and been sentenced to hang? How had he pulled off the subterfuge and what other secrets remained hidden? As the investigation unfolds, the remarkable life and crimes of Captain Starlight, committed across four states of Australia under countless aliases, are revealed. Author Jane Smith's meticulous research reveals the stranger than fiction story of a compulsive liar and serial imposter: a doctor, a stockman and an accountant - and a bushranger, forger, con-man and killer. It is a true story of murder and deceit that reveals new information and presents, for the first time, a theory as to the real identity of the bushranger known as 'Captain Starlight'.

Product Details

Author:
Jane Smith
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
AU
Date Published:
7 September 2016
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm
Genre:
Australian
ISBN-10:
1925275302
ISBN-13:
9781925275308
Language:
English
Pages:
300
Weight:
453.59 gm

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