Why I Joined the Detectives single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1882... 1882 Why I Joined the Detectives
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A Wisconsin legal student is nearly robbed of $3000 of his firm's money by talking freely of his mission on the railway journey. His narrow escape with the help of several farmers and a little girl decide his career as a detective. Competent conventional crime narrative. (Publication summary)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 17 no. 207 August 1882 Z1044669 1882 periodical issue 1882 pg. 671-672
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