The Captain's Last Grip 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: 1889... 1889 The Captain's Last Grip
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Tale set in the days before becoming a mounted trooper. Returning from droving cattle to Melbourne the narrator comes across a bush inn run by an old sea captain, his bosun now turning to drink, and a rough young man. He becomes very fond of the captain and returns at Christmas to find he has disappeared. With the help of the young man and a ghost he discovers the old man murdered by the bosun while drunk ... (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 24 no. 284 January 1889 Z1080955 1889 periodical issue 1889 pg. 279-284
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