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1879
On A False Scent
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A mysterious white-haired shanty keeper has her revenge on the magistrate husband and haughty daughter she abandoned for a neighbouring magistrate years before. A country policeman tries to solve the mysery but it is only revealed at the will-reading after her husband's death. Sexual sub-text; and mother and daughter involved with the same man. (PB)
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