The Queen Versus Billy and Other Stories
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781417965427
Subjects: Short stories; Short Stories (single author); Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: IT was the Sandfly, Captain Toombs, that brought the news to Sydney and intercepted her Majesty's third-class cruiser Stingaree, as she lay in Man-of-War Cove, with her boats hoisted in and a deck-load of coal as high as her bulwarks, on the eve of a long trip into the western Pacific.