Frank Clune

Reckless Rascal of "Robbery Under Arms,"

Captain Starlight

Captain Starlight, Reckless Rascal of "Robbery Under Arms" [by Rolf Boldrewood]. (With Decorations by Allan Jordan.).

The Story of the Peppin Merino

Search for the Golden Fleece

The Gold-stealing Murders ; Piesley on the Spree ; Murder on the Mist

The Blue Mountains Murderer

A Companion to Prowling Through Papua

Somewhere in New Guinea

Sky High to Shanghai

The Life and Times of Australia's Ironclad Outlaw

New Kelly's Last Stand

Percy Reginald Stephensen

This book tells of how the brig Cyprus was taken over by mutinous convicts as she sailed off the south-east coast of Van Diemen's Land in 1829 and of what happened to those who were involved. It has been based on documentary evidence and the authors have disentangled the truth, from the many contradictory accounts, of an event about which most of the protagonists were only too keen to tell lies to save their own skins.

The Pirates of the Brig Cyprus

"Armed robbery, murder, lies, treachery, "confession", and a legal tangle that ended in a sensational trial followed by three executions : these are some of the chief ingredients in this grim account of a callous crime committed on the New Zealand goldfields in 1866. This is also an unusual study of the mental make-up of the four lying, brutal Londoners who were responsible for the crime ... Frank Clune traces the lives of the four criminals and shows what influences played an important part in shaping their twisted lives: there were the crowded Thames-side slums created by the Industrial Revolution ... the laws designed to punish rather than to reform ; the rotten prison hulks ; the transportation system ; and the mental cruelty of life in the prisons of the day."--Inside front cover.

A History of the Crimes Committed on the Lonely Slopes of Maunga-tapu ("the Sacred Mountain") in New Zealand in the Year 1866

Murders on Maunga-tapu

Frank Clune

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