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The Girl's Coffin 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: 1887... 1887 The Girl's Coffin
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Sinclair is stationed briefly in an isolated villaged in the Victorian Ranges during a bushranger panic. He becomes involved in a bushranger's revenge, with his daughter's aid, on the daughter of the carpenter who had him imprisoned years before and who is to marry his daughter's step-son ... Includes the carpenter making a coffin - unknowingly - for his own daughter ... (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 22 no. 267 August 1887 Z1046159 1887 periodical issue 1887 pg. 677-683
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