This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Guy Boothby's style and literary impact

Set amidst a rough-and-tumble community of settlers on a remote island off the coast of Australia, Guy Boothby's "The Marriage of Esther" combines the best qualities of classic action-adventure fiction with an ingeniously plotted mystery — and right in the middle of all of it is a heart-tugging romance.
Guy Newell Boothby was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He wrote his masterpiece "The Marriage of Esther" in 1895.