 Like Hornung 's first novel , Tiny Luttrell had Australia as a backdrop and also used the plot device of an Australian woman in a culturally alien environment . The Australian theme was present in his next four novels : The Boss of Taroomba ( 1894 ) , The Unbidden Guest ( 1894 ) , Irralie 's Bushranger ( 1896 ) and The Rogue 's March ( 1896 ) . In the last of these Hornung wrote of the Australian convict transport system , and showed evidence of a " growing fascination with the motivation behind criminal behaviour and a deliberate sympathy for the criminal hero as a victim of events " , while Irralie 's Bushranger introduced the character Stingaree , an Oxford @-@ educated , Australian gentleman thief , in a novel that " casts doubt on conventional responses " to a positive criminal character , according to Hornung 's biographer , Stephen Knight . 
 Like Hornung <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>first novel , Tiny Luttrell had Australia as a backdrop and also used the plot device of an Australian woman in a culturally alien environment . The Australian theme was present in his next four novels : The Boss of Taroomba ( 1894 ) , The Unbidden Guest ( 1894 ) , Irralie <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>Bushranger ( 1896 ) and The Rogue <a href='null_genetive' title='3'><mark>'s</mark></a>March ( 1896 ) . In the last of these Hornung wrote of the Australian convict transport system , and showed evidence of a " growing fascination with the motivation behind criminal behaviour and a deliberate sympathy for the criminal hero as a victim of events " , while Irralie <a href='null_genetive' title='4'><mark>'s</mark></a>Bushranger introduced the character Stingaree , an Oxford @-@ educated , Australian gentleman thief , in a novel <a href='null_relcl' title='5'><mark>that</mark></a>" <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>casts</mark></a> doubt on conventional responses " to a positive criminal character , according to Hornung <a href='null_genetive' title='7'><mark>'s</mark></a>biographer , Stephen Knight . 
Like Hornung  first novel , Tiny Luttrell had Australia as a backdrop and also used da plot device of an Australian woman in a culturally alien environment . TdaAustralian theme was present in his nxt 4 novels : The Boss of Taroomba ( 1894 ) , The Unbidden Guest ( 1894 ) , Irralie  Bushranger ( 1896 ) and The Rogue  March ( 1896 ) . In the last of these Hornung wrote of the Australian convict transport system , and showed evidence of a " growin fascination witt the motivation behind criminal behaviour and a deliberate sympathy for the criminal hero as a victim of events " , while Irralie  Bushranger introduced thdaharacter Stingaree , an Oxford @-@ educated , Australian gentleman thief , in a novel " cast doubt on conventional responses " to a positive criminal character , according to Hornung  biographer , Stephen Knight .