Sheilah McLeod: A Heroine of the Back Blocks

Guy Boothby

1867–1905

An Australian novelist and short-story writer, he became wildly popular in the 1890s for fast-moving adventure tales and for creating the sinister master criminal Dr. Nikola. His fiction mixed imperial intrigue, mystery, and romance in a way that made him a favorite of magazine and railway-bookstall readers.