Captain Starlight (book)

Captain Starlight, also known as Starlight, is a 1945 Australian book by Frank Clune about the inspirations for Captain Starlight in the novel Robbery Under Arms.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27916544 |title=Book News |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=33,756 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=2 March 1946 |accessdate=16 April 2024 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224421371 |title=NEW BOOKS |newspaper=Weekly Times |issue=3998 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=30 January 1946 |accessdate=16 April 2024 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}} It was published by Hawthorne Press.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article188757848 |title=New Books |newspaper=The Telegraph |location=Queensland, Australia |date=15 December 1945 |accessdate=16 April 2024 |page=5 (STUMPS SCORES) |via=National Library of Australia}} According to Catholic Weekly "the author seeks to discover who was Captain Starlight of Rolf Boldrewood's famous Robbery Under Arms."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146486039 |title=BOOKS |newspaper=Catholic Weekly |volume=IV |issue=200 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=27 December 1945 |accessdate=16 April 2024 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}

It was released around the time as two other short Clune works, Forlorn Hope and The Greatest Liar on Earth.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48682220 |title=Reviews of New Books |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=15 December 1945 |accessdate=17 April 2024 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The Age said "Clune carries out a pretty piece of literary detective work... Clune has followed the clues relentlessly, and he makes the most

of one of the strangest pieces of real life adventure which one could hope

to find."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205647045 |title=Books of the Day--Cont. |newspaper=The Age |issue=28294 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=29 December 1945 |accessdate=16 April 2024 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}