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Poor Nellie 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: 1893... 1893 Poor Nellie
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A young English doctor comes to live in a small Victorian country town. He makes friends with the local mounted trooper, son of a 'good old English family' and goes to live in an old watch house on a local squatter's property. The squatter's younger daughter Nellie, a little mentally impaired, has an informal 'house' of her own there - and the doctor discovers she meets there a violent and cruel bushranger who uses as a tool to get money from her father. Theft and murder follows. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 28 no. 334 March 1893 Z1069280 1893 periodical issue 1893 pg. 393-399
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