Miss Henderson's Dressing-Bag single work   short story   detective   mystery  
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: 1895... 1895 Miss Henderson's Dressing-Bag
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An East-Melbourne household is disturbed by a newly arrived English orphan niece's fears of a ghost who nightly moves her dressing-case to her aunt's bedroom. Detective Sinclair investigates - visits the steamer at Williamstown that she came out on - and uncovers (with the help of the household's male cook) a murder at sea, imposture by a travelling companion as the niece, and a morphine addicted doctor as a wealthy Englishman in Melbourne. He suicides with an overdose; she is committed to an saylum. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 30 no. 358 March 1895 Z1077703 1895 periodical issue 1895 pg. 394-398
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