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'A Fair Cop' single work   short story   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 'A Fair Cop'
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Tony Piker is a con man who must leave Sydney in a hurry to avoid prison. He hears of a widow who has a fortune in land and animals and who wants to marry again. She accepts his offer of marriage, but he flees when he learns her true circumstances..

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Queenslander 22 December 1937 Z1741874 1937 newspaper issue 1937 pg. 13
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