A Phantom at Chess single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1892... 1892 A Phantom at Chess
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An English war correspondent cum government agent in Bombay is visited by a phantom who plays a game of chess with him, the stakes a favour to be done. The Englishman loses but in carrying out his promise - to save a woman from assault - achieves his aim of discovering a counterfeiter. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 28 no. 328 September 1892 Z1040497 1892 periodical issue 1892 pg. 39-42
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