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Notes Re The Mansfield Tragedy 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: 1892... 1892 Notes Re The Mansfield Tragedy
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A Melbourne doctor is poisoned by his deformed son who goes mad, his young wife runs off with a bank clerk and only his daughter remains true. Includes faithful family servant. Narrated through notes of another doctor, an old friend, and an unofficial detective called in. Brief note by Sinclair ends the tale. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 28 no. 330 November 1892 Z1071173 1892 periodical issue 1892 pg. 159-166
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