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judge D-'s Murder 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: 1893... 1893 judge D-'s Murder
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Sinclair investigates the murder of an old judge in Melbourne. He discovers an unhappy second marriage which caused the judge to cut his young termagent wife out of his will almost entirely and order her to leave with her intellectually retarded sister and supposedly crippled father. The murder is solved with the help of loyal's servants and the leader of a gang of thieves who bargain with Sinclair. Police leniancy in exchange for information. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 29 no. 342 November 1893 Z1048236 1893 periodical issue 1893 pg. 161-166
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