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Title: By the Sluice Title Record # 605149
Author: E. F. Benson
Date: 1927-03-25
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First appeared in The Tatler (25 March 1927) (source: "Sources" list on pages 301-302 of Fine Feathers and Other Stories)
Synopsis: This was included as speculative fiction as it's classified as one of E. F. Benson's “Spook” stories. In this story a bank employee embezzles a small amount from a customer. The customer notices something is not right and asks for the branch manager. The employee sees this and leaves. For a few days he's missing but then is found dead in a sluice. It is unknown if he fell in by accident or drowned himself.
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Fine Feathers and Other Stories 1994-00-00 E. F. Benson Oxford University Press 0-19-212325-4   xviii+
302
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll William Strang Checkmark
Fine Feathers and Other Stories 1995-06-00 E. F. Benson Oxford University Press 0-19-282416-3
£5.99?£: UK pound
xviii+
302
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 William Strang  
The Face 2003-04-30 E. F. Benson Ash-Tree Press 1-55310-052-2
C$59.00?C$: Canadian dollar
xxii+
181
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Douglas Walters  
The Face 2012-03-22 E. F. Benson Ash-Tree Press 978-1-55310-232-8
$6.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Douglas Walters  
The Outcast and Other Dark Tales 2020-03-19 E. F. Benson The British Library (British Library Tales of the Weird) 978-0-7123-5386-1
£8.99?£: UK pound
284
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
Sandra Gómez?Sandra Gomez
Checkmark
The Outcast and Other Dark Tales 2020-03-19 E. F. Benson The British Library (British Library Tales of the Weird) 978-0-7123-6755-4
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll
Sandra Gómez?Sandra Gomez
 
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