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The tale of Fisher's Ghost's originally from John Lang's Botany Bay, or, True Stories of the Early Days of Australia . Penrith, NSW, was the scene of Edward Smith's murder of his neighbouring farmer John Fisher, both of them ex-convicts. Smith's plan is foiled by suspicions aroused by Fisher's apparition, the skills of a black tracker, and the sagacious magistrate, Mr Cox. Smith is hanged. (PB)

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First published in Charles Dicken's Household Words, 1853, and in French in L'Ami de la Maison 20, 27 March 1856.

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The (Feminine) Eye of the Law : Mary Helena Fortune Lucy Sussex , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction : The Mothers of the Mystery Genre 2010; (p. 120-141)

The Five Ghosts of John Lang Victor Crittenden , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Margin , April no. 71 2007; (p. 4-8)

More Substance to Fisher's Ghost? Cecil Hadgraft , Elizabeth Webby , 1968 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 3 no. 3 1968; (p. 190-200)

The Five Ghosts of John Lang Victor Crittenden , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Margin , April no. 71 2007; (p. 4-8)

More Substance to Fisher's Ghost? Cecil Hadgraft , Elizabeth Webby , 1968 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 3 no. 3 1968; (p. 190-200)

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