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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Autor Fergus Hume
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iul 2009
An Unabridged, Digitally Enhanced Printing Of The Revised Edition With Preface By The Author - Chapters Include, But Are Not Limited To: What The Argus Said - The Evidence At The Inquest - One Hundred Pounds Reward - Mr. Gorby Makes A Start - Mrs. Hamilton Unbosoms Herself - Mr. Gorby Makes Further Discoveries - The Wool King - Brian Takes A Walk And A Drive - Mr. Gorby Is Satisfied At Last - In The Queen's Name - Counsel For The Prisoner - She Was A True Woman - Madge Makes A Discovery - Another Richmond In The Field - A Woman Of The People - Missing - The Trial - Sal Rawlins Tells All She Knows - The Verdict Of The Jury - The "Argus" Gives Its Opinion - Three Months Afterwards - A Daughter Of Eve - Across The Walnuts And The Wine - Brian Receives A Letter - What Dr. Chinston Said - Kilsip Has A Theory Of His Own - Mother Guttersnipe Joins The Majority - Mark Frettlby Has A Visitor - Mr. Calton's Curiosity Is Satisfied - Nemesis - Hush-Money - De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum - The Confession - The Hands Of Justice - "The Love That Lives."
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ISBN-13: 9781603862332
ISBN-10: 1603862331
Pagini: 188
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Merchant Books
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Fergusson Wright Hume (1859 - 1932), known as Fergus Hume, was a prolific English novelist. Finding that the novels of Émile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, Hume obtained and read a set of them and determined to write a novel of the same kind. The result was The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne, with descriptions of poor urban life based on his knowledge of Little Bourke Street. It was self-published in 1886 and became a great success. Because he sold the British and American rights for 50 pounds, however, he reaped little of the potential financial benefit. It became the best-selling mystery novel of the Victorian era; in 1990 John Sutherland called it the "most sensationally popular crime and detective novel of the century". This novel inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle remarked, "Hansom Cab was a slight tale, mostly sold by 'puffing'." After the success of his first novel and the publication of another, Professor Brankel's Secret (c.?1886), Hume returned to England in 1888. His third novel was titled Madame Midas and it was based on the life of the mine and newspaper owner Alice Ann Cornwell. This book became a play and her estranged husband, John Whiteman, sued over its content. Hume resided in London for a few years and then moved to the Essex countryside where he lived in Thundersley for 30 years. Eventually he produced more than 100 novels and short stories.