Hazard; or, Pearce Dyceton's Crime

Hazard; or, Pearce Dyceton's Crime is a 1872 Australian stage play by Walter Cooper.

Academic Richard Fotheringham said the characters of Rawes "is an example of a stock figure in a number of later Australian plays: polite, effete and very British, good-hearted but ignorant of and unsuited to rough living conditions."

Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald said " the story is eminently dramatic, the dialogue sparkling, the situatious good, and the o in-trusts of character clear and decided, without bßing over drawn."

The Sydney Mail said "It is hardly to be commended that the legitimate drama should be put aside for pieces so murderously sensational."

The Evening News said it was "the best piece" from the author.

The play was produced on stage in the USA.

The play was revived in Australia in 1875.