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Title: Miss Bertha and the Yankee Title Record # 1344065
Author: Wilkie Collins
Date: 1877-12-22
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: Borderline genre: contains a supposed ghost that turns out not to be one. Originally published as 'The Duel in Herne Wood' in The Spirit of the Times, 22 December 1877.
Synopsis: "Captain Stanwick and Lionel Varleigh are old friends but after falling out over their attentions to Bertha Laroche fight an illegal duel in Herne Wood. Stanwick wrongly thinks he has killed Varleigh and goes mad, killing himself with a razor, when his supposed victim returns like an apparition from the dead. Varleigh is acquitted of murder and marries Bertha."
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Little Novels 1887-00-00 Wilkie Collins Chatto & Windus     319+
331+
303+
32
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Tales of Suspense 1954-00-00 Wilkie Collins The Folio Society     255
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1972-00-00 Wilkie Collins Dover Publications 0-486-20307-7
$3.00?$: US dollar
ix+
294
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Checkmark
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1972-06-00 Wilkie Collins Peter Smith Publisher 0-8446-4725-X
$11.00?$: US dollar
ix+
294
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Little Novels 1977-00-00 Wilkie Collins Dover Publications 0-486-23506-8
$3.00?$: US dollar
244
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Checkmark
Little Novels 2008-10-15 Wilkie Collins Project Gutenberg 1630
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural date unknown Wilkie Collins Dover Publications 0-486-20307-7
$6.50?$: US dollar
ix+
294
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Fred Walker Checkmark
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