Curlew's Gully 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: 1893... 1893 Curlew's Gully
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A team of five diggers agree to pump out a flooded claim on a tiny diggings, encouraged by a swagman and digger, Bill the Hatter. A miserly shanty-keeper tries to double-cross them - but one of the team, a murderer, watches and kills him! Includes an old woman and her young grand-daughter half-starved - who grows up to marry one of the team. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 28 no. 339 August 1893 Z1068885 1893 periodical issue 1893 pg. 686-693
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