A Clever Sheme [sic: scheme] Rudely Spoiled single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 A Clever Sheme [sic: scheme] Rudely Spoiled
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A woman plots to use a house for mental patients as a means of delaying a jeweller while she decamped with his diamonds. Her ruse is frustrated however when the doctor recognises her beneath her disguises as an English noblewoman and the wife who deserted him for crime years before. (PB)

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