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The Sealed Chamber 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: 1884... 1884 The Sealed Chamber
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A beautiful scheming woman married to a weak-willed, rich Melbourne merchant prince agrees to enter a sealed room to destroy her dead father-in-law's will which would disinherit her husband in favour of his younger brother. She encounters a ghost but executes her task. The younger brother returns and proves her a murdress in California ; his brother repents and dies forgiven by brother and father's ghost; she hangs herself in gaol. (PB)

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