The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus W. Hume

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Book name:	The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (2024)
Category:	Mystery
Author:	Fergus W. Hume
Pages:	260 pages
ISBN13:	184637006X
ISBN:	184637006X
Language:	English
Publication data:	July 11, 2005, 7 a.m.

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.

About the author

Fergus W. Hume

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Fergusson Wright Hume (1859–1932), New Zealand lawyer and prolific author particularly renowned for his debut novel, the international best-seller The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886).

Hume was born at Powick, Worcestershire, England, son of Glaswegian Dr. James Collin Hume, a steward at the Worcestershire Pauper Lunatic Asylum and his wife Mary Ferguson.

While Fergus was a very young child, in 1863 the Humes emigrated to New Zealand where James founded the first private mental hospital and Duned… Read more