Matilda, My Darling
Nigel Krauth
Hardcover
(George Allen & Unwin, March 15, 1984)
SYNOPSIS: "Set in the 1890s, PI Hammond Niall is sent to central Queensland to investigate the disappearance of a swagman suspected of drowning in a remote billabong. 'Banjo' Patterson is traveling with him. Niall discovers that he is involved in more than an obscure bush murder--working in the violent atmosphere of the shearers' strike means he is also investigating profound aspects of the Australian psyche."