Dan Brand's Dying Curse single work   short story  
Is part of The Detective's Album Mary Fortune , Hugh Dalmore , Rex Grayson , A. C. Eiseman , M. Joseph Lynch , 1865 series - publisher
Issue Details: First known date: 1878... 1878 Dan Brand's Dying Curse
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A sergeant at a country station is repaid for his masquerade as a priest to wring information from a dying man by the murder of his favourite little daughter and then his own. A woman helping his wife with housework and a wandering tramp conspire ... [Horrible; interesting, re: the sergeant's domestic situation and Catholic taboos.] (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 14 no. 163 December 1878 Z1025961 1878 periodical issue 1878 pg. 195-200
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