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The Whispers of the Dead 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: 1894... 1894 The Whispers of the Dead
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A mounted constable and a journalist assist in uncovering the murder of the cruel vindictive widow of a Germanic vigneron by her sister. Motive in the widow's decision to remarry and thus deprive her poor bullied sister of a home. Fellow Germanic vigneron suspects something when whispers come from a large tank in which the widow's husband also died. Murderer impersonates sister after death. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 29 no. 344 January 1894 Z1048431 1894 periodical issue 1894 pg. 277-283
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