The book consists of ten short stories. One of these, "The Taking of Stingaree", was published in July 1901 in The Graphic. Eight of the others were published in The Strand Magazine between September 1904 and April 1905, illustrated by Australian artist George W. Lambert. These nine stories, together with a previously unpublished story titled "The Purification of Mulfera", were collected in Stingaree, which was published in September 1905. The character Stingaree first appeared in Hornung's Irralie's Bushranger, which was serialised in Cassell's Family Magazine in 1895, though this earlier version of the character was significantly different from the later version.Stingaree Rides Again, "Introduction" by Peter Rowland, pp. 3–8.
