The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Written by Fergus Hume
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“The following report appeared in the Argus newspaper of Saturday, the 28th July, 18-- “Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and certainly the extraordinary murder which took place in Melbourne on Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, goes a long way towards verifying this saying. A crime has been committed by an unknown assassin, within a short distance of the principal streets of this great city, and is surrounded by an inpenetrable mystery. … “On the twenty-seventh day of July, at the hour of twenty minutes to two o'clock in the morning, a hansom cab drove up to the police station in Grey Street, St. Kilda, and the driver made the startling statement that his cab contained the body of a man who he had reason to believe had been murdered….” (Excerpt from the first chapter.)
Fergus Hume
Fergus Hume (1859–1932) was born in England and raised in New Zealand. He immigrated to Australia in 1885 and was working as a clerk in a Melbourne barrister’s office when he wrote The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886). The bestselling crime novel of the nineteenth century, it served as inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.
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Reviews for The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good storyline and plot. Poor betrayal of women little more than children and in need of a man’s guidance just to walk down the hall. I realize that this was written many years ago, but couldn’t authors and readers dipict women as they are? Also, the author did a terrible job trying to have his characters speak like they were ignorant and uneducated.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A very good mystery with good characters and well explained finish