y separately published work icon The Five-Acre Paddock 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 The Five-Acre Paddock
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Rich and pretty Kate Drummond discovers that her fiancee Jones Steeler is already married. She sends him away but gives the deed of five acre paddock to his wife. The wife is found dead in the morning, Jonas's knife beside her ... There are more false marriages and changes of character before the tale is complete. (PB)

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Serialised by: The Australian Journal 1865 periodical (900 issues)
      1881 .
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      • Published in two monthly instalments in The Australian Journal: 17.197 (September 1881) pp. 97-101; and 17.198 (October 1881) pp. 159 - 162.
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