The Last Dance 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: 1891... 1891 The Last Dance
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In rural Victoria, Bella Woodruff ignores her mother's and her aunt's pleading and attends a ball to dance one last time with her seducer and betrayer Brian Coyn who is to marry another. He does not return alive from the ball, and soon after Bella marries his partner. One year later harsh justice is done to the murderer ... (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 27 no. 318 November 1891 Z1037672 1891 periodical issue 1891 pg. 160-166
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