Captain Marvin's Housekeeper 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: 1881... 1881 Captain Marvin's Housekeeper
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A penniless English emigrant seeking work accepts a position as child's companion on a Victorian country station. On her arrival she finds the housekeeper full of citterness to her employer, the Captain, and his apparently mentally impaired daughter. The housekeeper's real identity, her madness and her terrible revenge through explosion and fire on the captain and his daughter are vividly portrayed. (PB)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 17 no. 196 September 1881 Z1040864 1881 periodical issue 1881 pg. 40-46
Last amended 19 Dec 2003 10:16:11
Subjects:
  • 1870
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  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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