Author's note: 'Although the situation and history of the city of Mount Argent in this novel is based loosely on that of Broken Hill in New South Wales, I wish to make it clear that any resemblance to any person, living or dead, or to any business or industry connected with Broken Hill, is entirely coincidental and unintentional.
There is, of course, no such newspaper as the Sydney Evening Chronicle-nor, I trust, will there ever be!'
