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EPISODE NINE:: The next day, New Year’s Eve, Victor, Stella and I descended on Sydney Station at Redfern, in search of the ticket inspector who had been on duty on that train. We soon learned […]

EPISODE EIGHT:: Dr Thompson said Lane’s explanation sounded scurrilous but Victor Trumper confirmed that his fellow cricketers often took to corsets and stockings in the name of fundraising. Tom Roberts told us to arrest Lane […]

EPISODE SEVEN:: It was five days before we were able to assemble the suspects. I must claim credit for the deception that accomplished this. We sent invitations to each of the people who had shared […]

EPISODE SIX:: “Cannot Lt Kelso simply go to the newspaper himself and recount what he saw at the meeting?” I asked. Trumper explained why he could not. Two nights earlier, just after he had delivered […]

EPISODE FIVE:: With the evidence in his hands, Kelso had found himself on the horns of a dilemma. To whom could he report the conspiracy he had unearthed? Both the military and the police had […]

EPISODE FOUR:: “Victor, leave him alone.” It was Miss Franklin. Trumper’s fist froze. I managed to gasp through his grip on my throat: “Do you mean to say, Miss Franklin, that Victor Trumper is your […]

EPISODE THREE:: It was with a sense of defeat that I waited for Miss Franklin at our agreed rendezvous in Robertson’s book store in George Street, aimlessly flipping through The Sydney Morning Herald. It seemed […]

EPISODE TWO:: Before I began accusing important people of a base deed, I sought to establish that there could be no other explanation for the letter’s disappearance. I guided Miss Franklin out of the arcade […]

THE STORY SO FAR: It’s New Year’s Day, 1901. Our narrator, Charles Bennett, and his friends Victor Trumper and Stella (Miles) Franklin have learnt of a plot to destroy Federation by assassinating a top politician, […]