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Memoirs of an Australian Police Officer
1865
series - author
short story
The Detective's Album
1865
series - publisher
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First known date:
1866...
1866
The Dead Witness; or, The Bush Waterhole
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Memoirs of an Australian Police Officer, 5.
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First published anonymously but attributed by most authorities to Mary Fortune although most of the series to which it belongs was written by James Skipp Borlase.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Some Early Australian Storytellers and Their Tales
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Caring Cultures : Sharing Imaginations : Australia and India 2006; (p. 6-12) Bennett's article provides a brief survey of some of the earliest Australian short stories, from the 1820s to the 1870s, giving a sense of the 'lively and engaging storytelling' of early colonial Australia (11). -
Mary Fortune and the First Detective Story
1991
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 125 1991; (p. 47)
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Some Early Australian Storytellers and Their Tales
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Caring Cultures : Sharing Imaginations : Australia and India 2006; (p. 6-12) Bennett's article provides a brief survey of some of the earliest Australian short stories, from the 1820s to the 1870s, giving a sense of the 'lively and engaging storytelling' of early colonial Australia (11). -
Mary Fortune and the First Detective Story
1991
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 125 1991; (p. 47)
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