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The Deadly Diamonds
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An artist and his friend are joined on their camping trip to Gippsland by an old acquaintance of bad reputation recently returned from the South African diamond mines. He takes lodgings at a small cottage, falls in love with the 'widowed' owner and gambles with her dissipated 'brother' and disappears along with his diamonds ... Female murdress and weak male ... (PB)
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