The Polyphonist single work   short story   detective  
Issue Details: First known date: 1889... 1889 The Polyphonist
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A horrible murder involving the deposit of a severed head in a girl's bedroom at a Bourke Street hotel, causing her to lose her reason on waking to discover it there - kissing it and talking to the bloody lips. The narrator, a new chum when the story opens, becomes a policeman and through a lucky coincidence solves the case eight years later. (PB)

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