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Handsome Stafford 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 Handsome Stafford
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A Victorian farmer shoots the philandering married artist who woos his innocent, slow youngest daughter she visits her mother's grave and then transfers his attention to the elder beautiful self-absorbed daughter -inducing her to promise to run off with him. The father confeses but receives only six months' gaol; the elder daughter goes mad dying in Kew asylum and Mary sickens and dies - joining her mother. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 30 no. 352 September 1894 Z1076687 1894 periodical issue 1894 pg. 45-48
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