Doctor Spenser's Crime single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1891... 1891 Doctor Spenser's Crime
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A case of wife-poisoning. A doctor suspects a fellow doctor of poisoning his own wife slowly with arsenic so that he might marry his mistress. With the help of the wife's faithful nurse the crime is averted and the doctor kills himself ... Second doctor marries the widow. Slight competent tale. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 26 no. 308 January 1891 Z1035060 1891 periodical issue 1891 pg. 244-245
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