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This is your audiobook for June 2022. "The Dead Witness, or The Bush Waterhole" was first published in 1866 and is one of the first known detective short stories to be written by a woman. It appeared in a Melbourne magazine named the Australian Journal and was credited to "Waif Wander" or W. W. — the penname that Irish-Canadian immigrant Mary Fortune used for her writing in Australia.
By Caroline CramptonThis is your audiobook for June 2022. "The Dead Witness, or The Bush Waterhole" was first published in 1866 and is one of the first known detective short stories to be written by a woman. It appeared in a Melbourne magazine named the Australian Journal and was credited to "Waif Wander" or W. W. — the penname that Irish-Canadian immigrant Mary Fortune used for her writing in Australia.