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Bobby Owen, Black Magic, Bloodshed & Burglary: Selected Short
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531:’’A Seaside Singer’’. Weekly Irish Times, 25 May 1907
534:’’The Alphabet Toast’’. The Idler, October 1907
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642:A Study in the Obvious
616:The Tide Runs Strongly
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405:Carter and Bell series
350:Everybody Always Tells
320:It Might Lead Anywhere
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568:Cornhill Magazine
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