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On A False Scent single work   short story  
Is part of The Detective's Album Mary Fortune , Hugh Dalmore , Rex Grayson , A. C. Eiseman , M. Joseph Lynch , 1865 series - publisher
Issue Details: First known date: 1879... 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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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 14 no. 166 March 1879 Z1026045 1879 periodical issue 1879 pg. 352-359
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