Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Mayne Family Chart

Chapter 1: A Profitable Murder

Chapter 2: Ireland to Australia

Chapter 3: Law Courts & Land Deals

Chapter 4: Consolidating an Empire

Chapter 5: In and Out of Council

Chapter 6: Life in Queen Street 1860–1865

Chapter 7: Crisis After Crisis

Chapter 8: Out of the Ashes

Chapter 9: A Family Ostracised

Chapter 10: The Tobita Murder and Its Aftermath

Chapter 11: The Burden of Inheritance

Chapter 12: Maynes and the University of Queensland

Epilogue

Sources