Dead or Alive 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: 1895... 1895 Dead or Alive
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Near Dunnolly, a mounted trooper is forced to camp at a water-hole, by a man who goes for a midnight swim. The trooper recognises him as a nearby shanty-keeper and there follows a tale of sly-grog and an illicit still, murder, ghostly visitations, two bodies in the waterhole and a naive policeman ... (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 30 no. 359 April 1895 Z1077564 1895 periodical issue 1895 pg. 451-457
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