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1 From the Jaws of Death An English Ex-Detective , 1886 single work short story detective
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , April vol. 21 no. 251 1886; (p. 418) English detective story. A commercial traveller for a London firm of jewellers is believed to have absconded but doubts are raised because of his own savings and the small fortune of his fiancee who has been abandoned ... A coincidental encounter with a counterfeiter several months later leads the detective to the missing man - and the exposure of a jealous rival. Detailed 'realist' narrative; stiff. (PB)
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