A New Year's Eve Tragedy single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1892... 1892 A New Year's Eve Tragedy
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Double tragedy as a madman murders a prima donna on the night she is to appear, and then stabs himself. The keeper of the insane asylum relates the story of the lunatic's desertion by his fiancee, and opera singer, on the eve of their wedding and how - 20 years later - his victim is the woman's own daughter. Thinly realised. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 27 no. 320 January 1892 Z1037976 1892 periodical issue 1892 pg. 238-239
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