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  1. 5 days ago · Fergus W. Hume. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. London: The Hansom Cab Publishing Company. 1888. Touted as the two-hundred-thousandth printing of the second edition of likely the first runaway bestseller in detective fiction.

  2. 6 days ago · Composed in the style of a newspaper report, 'What the Argus Said' is the opening chapter of 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab'. In it the reader learns of a highly intoxicated man being assisted to a hansom cab by another gentleman, but upon learning the identity of the drunken man the would-be good Samaritan leaves him in the gutter to ...

  3. 5 days ago · Melbourne, 1886. Op een duistere avond nemen twee mannen een rijtuig. Eén man stapt uit en de ander gaat door. Bij aankomst blijkt de tweede man vermoord te zijn. Dit schokt de stad. Het slachtoffer, de Engelsman Oliver Whyte, stond in hoog aanzien bij kolonies rijke man Mark Frettlby.

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  4. 3 days ago · Young Machen: A Reader of Curious Books. In 2020, Darkly Bright Press published a collection of early essays by Arthur Machen, dating to 1887 when he served as (uncredited) editor of Walford's Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographical Review. Last year, an expanded reset edition of this book came out from the same press, adding about forty pages ...

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  6. 5 days ago · Fergus Hume was renowned as the bestselling mystery writer of Victorian times after his first book, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, broke all records. In 1901 he returned to form with this ingenious tale, selected to represent Hume's prolific output by Collins' Detective Club panel in 1930.

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