Blockbuster! Fergus Hume and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Lucy Sussex

Blockbuster! Fergus Hume and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Lucy Sussex

298 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography crime history informative slow-paced
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Before there was Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, there was Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab—the biggest- and fastest-selling detective novel of the 1800s, and Australia’s first literary blockbuster.Fergus Hume was an aspiring playwr...

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