Royal Berger's Daughter 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 Royal Berger's Daughter
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A Melbourne private detective, Mr. W., is called in to investigate the sudden change in a piggish solicitor's wife after she has been home to Preston to visit her family - her drunken actor father and sisters. She was a Roman Catholic and a former ballet dancer but was forbidden when married to see her family again. She dies on the visit with her new-born child and her twin sister impersonates her - but when all is discovered and she repudiated she and her father take murderous revenge. Suicide follows her father's desertion. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 26 no. 305 October 1890 Z1033516 1890 periodical issue 1890 pg. 102-109
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