Detective O'Dowd's Darling 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: 1894... 1894 Detective O'Dowd's Darling
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Sincalir's tale of a fellow Melbourne detective, handsome misogynist Irish O'Dowd, who falls in love and becomes engaged to a beautiful independent visiting American heiress. O'Dowd then discovers she is a he, a fraudulent absconder from a London bank, in bewitching disguise. Strong trans/homo-sexual undertones. (PB)

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