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Charr's Pool 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: 1885... 1885 Charr's Pool
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An old couple, lighthouse-keeper's on Australia's eastern coast, have raised a girl rescued from the shipwreck which killed her mother. Her father is retiring anonymously to meet her, and when she greets him lovingly once he declares his identity, the young telegraph operator whom she has spurned is so enraged that he drowns her in a sea pool the next day ... (PB)

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