The mystery of a hansom cab

Fergus Hume ; with an introduction by Simon Caterson
Melbourne : Text Publishing, 1999

ISBN: 1876485035

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Book description
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is the original Australian blockbuster and international best-selling crime novel. First published in 1886, this vivid and brilliantly plotted murder thriller, set in the charming and deadly streets of marvellous Melbourne, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world. More than a century later, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab has lost none of its page-turning power. This new edition, introduced by Simon Caterson, reproduces for the first time the text of the original Australian printing.

Excerpt: 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.

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