The Piccadilly Puzzle A Mysterious Story - Fergus Hume - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781986911115 - May 2, 2018
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The Piccadilly Puzzle A Mysterious Story

Fergus Hume

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The Piccadilly Puzzle A Mysterious Story

Fergusson Wright Hume (8 July 1859 - 12 July 1932), known as Fergus Hume, was a prolific English novelist. Finding that the novels of Émile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, Hume obtained and read a set of them and determined to write a novel of the same kind. The result was The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne, with descriptions of poor urban life based on his knowledge of Little Bourke Street. It was self-published in 1886 and became a great success. Because he sold the British and American rights for 50 pounds, however, he reaped little of the potential financial benefit. It became the best-selling mystery novel of the Victorian era; in 1990 John Sutherland called it the most sensationally popular crime and detective novel of the century. This novel inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle remarked, Hansom Cab was a slight tale, mostly sold by puffing.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 2, 2018
ISBN13 9781986911115
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 168
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 9 mm   ·   231 g
Language English  

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