An Unregistered Patent single work   short story   crime  
Issue Details: First known date: 1892... 1892 An Unregistered Patent
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A confidence trick played by a Canadian grass-widow on a rich confiding young English nobleman. Snaring him with her beauty she succeeds in entrusting her jewels to him on a trip to Switzerland - and then he loses the cleverly designed collapsing casket ... (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 28 no. 328 September 1892 Z1040497 1892 periodical issue 1892 pg. 28-30
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