The Event of a Life single work   short story   crime  
Issue Details: First known date: 1893... 1893 The Event of a Life
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Lodging-house tale. A venerable old clerk tells his tale to a fellow lodger of his youthful employment to the daughter of a Sydney hotel-keeper; her flirtation with an American and her murder. A false note led the narrator to a drunken life until her ghost shows him her body - and a dying man's confession reveals the murderer. (PB)

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