num_pages: 239
description: A hansom cab driver in Melbourne, Australia takes a gentleman passenger on board but unfortunately the passenger is discovered to be dead on arrival! How could a person travelling on his own in the back of a cab have been chloroformed to death? That is the mystery that holds the reader, from page one right through to the very end. It has been described in one reference book as the most successful crime story of all time, has sold well over a million copies and has appeared in at least 12 different language versions.Fergus Hume wrote this book at the age of 27 when he was a barristers' clerk in Australia. He went on to write a further 140 novels but none of them achieved any real success at all.
language: English
title: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
titlecomplete: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Australia, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 1550
places: Melbourne, Victoria
series: Melbourne Trilogy
publisher: Breese Books Ltd