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In the dead of night on a lonely Melbourne street, a cabbie discovers to his horror that his drunken passenger has been murdered--poisoned with a chloroform-saturated handkerchief. The killer, his motive, and even the victim's identity are unknown. The last person to be seen in the victim's company cannot be identified and has vanished into the streets of the Australian metropolis. The solution lies within a labyrinth of dark secrets, missing papers, evasive witnesses, and a deadly game of blackmail.
Ever since the publication of this 1886 mystery, the two-wheeled carriage known as a hansom cab has been linked in the popular imagination with sinister affairs. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was the unlikely first literary product of a young barrister's clerk and quickly rose from its obscure initial publication to become one of the nineteenth century's bestselling detective novels. Reputed to have inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes, this ingeniously plotted, fast-paced, and engrossing tale remains a delight for lovers of Victorian mysteries.
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- Title The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
- Author Fergus Hume
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications
- Date 2017-07-18
- ISBN 9780486816043 / 0486816044
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Murder - Investigation
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017001066
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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