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The Schooner and the Launch single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1890... 1890 The Schooner and the Launch
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English tale of seduction and revenge. A painter revenges himself on his wife's seducer, shady son of a Liverpool cotton-broker, by running a specially built launch into the seducer's schooner and killing him. Interesting narrative struture: part first-hand, part yacht club gossip. (Includes reference/comparison of a steam-launch to a torpedo-boat.) (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 26 no. 306 November 1890 Z1033519 1890 periodical issue 1890 pg. 165-166
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