y separately published work icon Old Latrobe's Punt 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: 1884... 1884 Old Latrobe's Punt
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A Melbourne lawyer takes a holiday in the Victorian bush with a fisherman to recover his health. He becomes involved in the fate of the fisherman's daughter Louise Pryne who believes herself secretly married to a neighbouring farmer preparing to leave the district - unbeknownst to her. Louisa meets by accident his first and true wife, and she commits suicide. The Melbourne lawyer befriends her father and returns with him to England to help him forget the tragedy. Includes a ghost tale of a punt and the 'half-caste' fisherman who owned it. (PB)

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First known date: 1884
      1884 .
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      • Serialised in two instalments in The Australian Journal: 19.230 (July 1884) pp. 593-598; and 19.231 (August 1884) 660-665.
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