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A Crime of the Under-Seas single work   novella   detective  
Issue Details: First known date: 1898... 1898 A Crime of the Under-Seas
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Private detective Christopher Collon is in the Grand Oriental Hotel at Colombo when he is approached by a diamond merchant John Leversidge. Leversidge asks him to retrieve a black pearl from a shipwreck off the New Guinea coast.

Affiliation Notes

  • Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as the work contains an Asian character and has references to Asia.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Serialised by: The Queenslander 1866 newspaper (2603 issues)
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Queenslander 29 October 1898 Z1788739 1898 newspaper issue 1898 pg. 833 Section: The Storyteller
    Note: Serialised in The Queenslander in 6 weekly instalments from 29 October 1898 to 3 December 1898.
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  • Colombo,
    c
    Sri Lanka,
    c
    South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Thursday Island, Torres Strait Islands, Queensland,
  • c
    Papua New Guinea,
    c
    Pacific Region,
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