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The Mystery at Mar's Place 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: 1883... 1883 The Mystery at Mar's Place
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A young trooper is sent to watch a house in the Victorian bush - the tale is mysterious and oddly written for W. W. Includes an old police sergeant, a ramshackle hut that is in fact a brick house and garden, an aristocratic father and his beautiful daughter - who turns out to be his son, a sham funeral and an undertaker who is a forger ... (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 19 no. 221 October 1883 Z1015256 1883 periodical issue 1883 pg. 91-94
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