There are some stories that pass the test of time. Some stories that linger on the air as a memory and yet others that should be forgotten. A Shilling on the Bar is a collection of tales, lies and legends that have been collected by Senior Magistrate, Trododniak Weatherness as he travelled his circuit in far North Queensland. The mango winds, the impending wet, the relentless heat are cruel masters to grip the fate of those lives within these pages. What is fact and what is fiction is for the reader to decide.