The Shaft in Wild Gully 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: 1879... 1879 The Shaft in Wild Gully
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A loyal wife journeys on foot to join her husband prospecting in the Victorian ranges. He is planning to marry a rich man's daughter and murders her with his pick and buries her in the mine. Another man had met her before she joined her husband and he asks where she is as the miner is about to marry. All is revealed. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 15 no. 174 November 1879 Z1012368 1879 periodical issue 1879 pg. 122-126
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