Fergus Hume

Charming, intelligent and forthright, the remarkable Madame Midas makes her fortune on the goldfields of Ballarat—and becomes the target of the villainous ex-convict Gaston Vandeloup, a charismatic Frenchman who soon makes himself indispensable to her mining operations. A companion piece to The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Fergus Hume's second novel is both a tightly plotted murder mystery and an...

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume is Australia's original blockbuster and an international best-selling crime novel. First published in 1886, it achieved overnight sensation status by selling hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide and being translated into eleven languages. Over a century later, Hansom Cab has lost none of its page-turning power. Set in the charming yet...

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was the best-selling crime novel of the nineteenth century. It was an overnight sensation when published in Melbourne in 1886 and rapidly found readers around the world, especially in Britain. The book became a huge international success and was translated into eleven languages. The novel's fame has endured well into this century. In 1954,...