The Mystery of a Hansom Cab de Fergus Hume

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab: A Dr. John Thorndyke Story

Fergus Hume

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2010

"Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and certainly the extraordinary murder which took place in Melbourne Friday morning goes a long way towards verifying that saying." Thus opens The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, the best selling mystery of the nineteenth century. When a man is found dead in a hansom cab one of Melbourne's leading citizens is accused of the murder. He pleads his innocence, yet refuses to give an alibi. It falls to a determined lawyer and an intrepid detective to find the truth, revealing long kept secrets along the way. Fergus Hume's first and perhaps most famous mystery... The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab. This classic book was edited by Resurrected Press. Resurrected Press is dedicated to bringing high quality classic books back to the readers who enjoy them. These are not scanned versions of the originals, but, rather, quality checked and edited books meant to be enjoyed Please search Amazon for "Resurrected Press" to find both print and Kindle editions of all of our books

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Express

Paperback (12)

60^.61 lei 3-5 săpt.

Dover Publications – 24 aug 2017

60^.61 lei 3-5 săpt.

Mint Editions – 28 feb 2021

67^.65 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

82^.89 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

86^.69 lei 3-5 săpt.

Resurrected Press – 30 apr 2010

104^.40 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

124^.56 lei 3-5 săpt.

ALPHA EDITION – 10 iul 2024

129^.50 lei 3-5 săpt.

Baker Street Studios Limited – 31 mai 2009

100^.41 lei 6-8 săpt.

Merchant Books – 16 iul 2009

101^.56 lei 38-44 zile

Echo Library – 30 iun 2005

127^.80 lei 38-44 zile

–

188^.24 lei 6-8 săpt.

TREDITION CLASSICS – 31 oct 2011

219^.14 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (1)

119^.71 lei 3-5 săpt.

Mint Editions – 9 mar 2021

119^.71 lei 3-5 săpt.

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.