Captain 'Bill' Lancaster, pioneer flyer of the 1920s and 30s, disappeared on a flight over the Sahara in 1933. It was 29 years before his body was found beside the wrecked plane; a log-book, tied to the wing, contained the calm yet moving record of his wait for death. Bill Lancaster's service career established his reputation as a man without fear, and when he left the RAF in 1926 he turned to trailblazing. An attempt to be the first man to fly a light plane to Australia involved him with a top woman flyer, 'Chubbie' Miller. The pair flew together for four years until the depression forced Lancaster to leave in search of work. How Bill Lancaster made a desperate effort to retrieve his fortunes, how Chubbie fell in love with writer Haden Clarke, while he was away, and how Clarke was shot dead on Lancaster's return, leads up to a full account of one of the most sensational murder trials of the century.