Hazard and Haphazard; Or, Dick Drewitt's Destruction single work   short story  
Is part of Flats, Sharps and Naturals! A Series of Sporting Sketches. And Intended to po[u]rtray the "Lights and Shades" and "Hairbreadth Scapes" of the Colonial Turf, Field and Salle. Craven , 1871 series - author short story
Issue Details: First known date: 1872... 1872 Hazard and Haphazard; Or, Dick Drewitt's Destruction
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On the ruin of a young man and his wife through his gambling. He loses 35,000 pounds inherited from his murdered parents and then his wife's capital too, to a scheming 'sharper'.

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  • Flat, Sharps and Naturals! No. III.

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 7 no. 81 February 1872 Z1053730 1872 periodical issue 1872 pg. 301-302
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