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The Lady of Whitecote single work   short story   crime  
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: 1889... 1889 The Lady of Whitecote
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An American preacher lecturing on Restitution moves old Mrs Tamerlayne - together with the appearance of her husband's ghost to make a new will restoring her property to her masculinely-raised step-daughter. She changes her mind on her deathbed and her substitute legatee - an orphan - is found dead from poison. The step-daughter thus inherits - she loves the local police sergeant who had not recognised her disguised as the American preacher. An old faithful servant had poisoned the young girl ... (PB)

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