Paul Parbingthorpe's Pansies 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: 1890... 1890 Paul Parbingthorpe's Pansies
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Domestic tragedy in rural setting. On the morning after she announces her engagement Agatha Rainsbury is found poisoned in her room. Suspicion points to her step-father who uses poison on his pansies and to his daughter Lola who would inherit the property after Agatha's death that her mother left solely to her. But the stepfather had confessed to Agatha the existence of a bastard son in a nearby town and she visited him and his mother that day, telling them the property was hers. Revenge is out ... (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 25 no. 298 March 1890 Z1032775 1890 periodical issue 1890 pg. 388-396
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