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The Murder at Southwell Road 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 Murder at Southwell Road
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Set in the city and on an up-country station. The discovery of a decomposing body in an empty Melbourne house starts Sinclair on an investigation which uncovers - with the help of various passengers who came out on the same ship from England, the murder of a scapegrace rich Englishman by his own cousin for envy and greed. Includes a governess, a kindly squatter and wife, and loyal old family servants ... (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 30 no. 353 October 1894 Z1076684 1894 periodical issue 1894 pg. 103-109
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