Birds of Ill Omen single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1939... 1939 Birds of Ill Omen
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Three sailors wash ashore on a deserted island after a shipwreck, but animosity grows among them. For each of them, the arrival of a sinister grey crane foreshadows doom.

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    y separately published work icon The Queenslander 22 February 1939 Z1567619 1939 newspaper issue 1939 pg. 43
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    Tahiti,
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    Society Islands,
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    French Polynesia,
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    South Pacific, Pacific Region,
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