The Spade Guinea single work   short story   detective  
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: 1893... 1893 The Spade Guinea
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A city boarding house and a tight-fisted old landlady with 'Jewish blood' murders one of her tenants for the 600 pounds in gold he had stolen from his employers, a building society. Her guilt is established with the help of a fellow boarder, of Detective Binge, and the victim's fiancee, an actress with whom he had planned to elope. Elements: apparent suicide, transient ghost; actress subsequently becomes a female detective officer in the force. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 28 no. 335 April 1893 Z1068978 1893 periodical issue 1893 pg. 457-458
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