A farmhand Joe Scorer is the prime suspect in the murder of handsome James Dennon, engaged to Joe's employer Catherine Empsy he refuses to marry her when she falls pregnant, courting Bessie Shannahand; younger, prettier and richer. Catherine's uncle is also suspected but it takes a clever swagman - a Melbourne detective - to find the murderer in half-witted, dirty Milly Moider ... (PB)