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The Resource Captain Starlight : the strange but true story of a bushranger, imposter and murderer, Jane Smith

Captain Starlight : the strange but true story of a bushranger, imposter and murderer, Jane Smith

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Captain Starlight : the strange but true story of a bushranger, imposter and murderer
Title
Captain Starlight
Title remainder
the strange but true story of a bushranger, imposter and murderer
Statement of responsibility
Jane Smith
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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'
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Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
AU@
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Smith, Jane Margaret
Dewey number
364.1552
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
  • plates
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Australian bushrangers series
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Starlight, Captain
  • Pearson, Frank
  • Bushrangers
  • Bushrangers
  • Forgery
  • Starlight, Captain (Fictitious character)
Label
Captain Starlight : the strange but true story of a bushranger, imposter and murderer, Jane Smith
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Content category
  • still image
  • text
Control code
000054747604
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
viii, 276 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates
Isbn
9781925275308
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits
System control number
(OCoLC)908763299
Label
Captain Starlight : the strange but true story of a bushranger, imposter and murderer, Jane Smith
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Content category
  • still image
  • text
Control code
000054747604
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
viii, 276 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates
Isbn
9781925275308
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits
System control number
(OCoLC)908763299

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