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Before there was Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes, there was Fergus Humes The Mystery of a Hansom Cabthe biggest, and fastest-selling, detective novel of the 1800s, and Australias first literary blockbuster.
Fergus Hume was an aspiring playwright when he moved from Dunedin to Melbourne in 1885. He wrote The Mystery of a Hansom Cab with the humble hope of bringing his name to the attention of theatre managers. The book sold out its first run almost instantly and it became a runaway word-of-mouth phenomenonbut its author sold the copyright for a mere fifty pounds, missing out on a potential fortune.
Blockbuster! is the engrossing story of a book that would help define the genre of crime fiction, and a portrait of a great city in full bloom. Rigorously researched and full of arresting detail, this captivating book is a must-read for all fans of true crime, history and crime fiction alike.
Lucy Sussex was born in New Zealand. She has edited four anthologies, including Shes Fantastical, shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. Her award-winning fiction includes books for younger readers and the novel The Scarlet Rider. Lucy has five short-story collections, including My Lady Tongue, A Tour Guide in Utopia, Absolute Uncertainty and Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies. Lucy Sussexs latest book is Blockbuster! Fergus Hume and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. She lives in Melbourne.
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SOURCES
Works by Hume Cited
Manuscripts
Letter to [Sampson and Low?], San Remo, 7 July 1891. Collection of Elizabeth Paton,transcription by Kay Craddock and Lucy Sussex.
Published Texts
Across the Footlights. London: F. V. White, 1912.
Aladdin in London: A Romance. London: Black, 1892.
Answered. London: F. V. White, 1915.
A Ballad of Arcadie. Gags, 1889: 89.
A Ballad of Fortune. The Theatre, 1 May 1886, 290.
The Chronicles of Fairy Land. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1911.
A Colonial Banshee. 1893. In Australian Gothic: An Anthology of Australian SupernaturalFiction 18671939. Ed. James Doig. Mandurah: Equilibrium, 2007.
Crazy-Quilt. London: Ward Lock, 1919.
The Dark Avenue. London: Ward Lock, 1920.
Dreams to Sell, Bookman, Nov. 1926, 1289.
Fact and Fiction, Bookman, July 1927, 2355.
Farcical Comedy, Table Talk, 3 July 1885, 34.
The Fever of Life. London: Sampson Low, 1892.
Four Novels. Bookman, Dec. 1927, 168.
The Gentleman who Vanished: A Psychological Phantasy. London: F. V. White, 1890.
The Girl from Malta. London: Hansom Cab, 1889.
Hagar of the Pawn Shop. London: Skeffington, 1898.
The Island of Fantasy: A Romance. London: Griffith Farran, 1892.
Lady Jim of Curzon Street. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1906.
Madame Midas. 1888. London: Hogarth, 1985.
The Man With a Secret. London: F. V. White, 1890.
The Millionaire Mystery. London: Chatto & Windus, 1901.
Miss Mephistopheles. London: F. V. White, 1890.
Monsieur Judas: A Paradox. London: Warne, 1896.
My Lady Disdain, Table Talk, 26 June 1885, 8.
Not Wanted. London: F. V. White, 1914.
The Piccadilly Puzzle: A Mystery Story. London: F. V. White, 1889.
Professor Brankels Secret: A Psychological Study. Melbourne: Bairds, c. 1887.
The Queer Story of Adam Lind. Manchester Times, Supplement, 5 Oct. 1889, 5.
Review of The Martyrdom of Madeline by Robert Buchanan. Otago Daily Times, 10 Mar.1883, 1.
Richard Wagner. Evening Star, 17 Feb. 1883, 2.
Satirical Opera. Table Talk, 26 June 1885, 2.
The Secret of the Chinese Jar, Or the Loot of the Summer Palace. 1893. Cleveland:Westbrook, 1912.
The Silent House in Pimlico. London: Long, 1900.
A Son of Perdition: An Occult Romance. London: Rider, 1912.
A Traitor in London. London: Long, 1900.
Tracked by a Tattoo. London: Warne, 1896.
When I Lived in Bohemia. Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1892.
The Unexpected. London: Oldhams, 1921.
With Philip Beck
A Centennial Song. Argus, 26 Jan. 1888, 5.
ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS
Ledger Book, Angus and Robertson records, Mitchell Library, ML MSS 3269/11.
Dolman, Glen, script for The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, 2012.
Goode, Cyril, Diaries. State Library of Victoria. MS MCFB 1 (EX MC 1, DR 1).
James Hume. Will. Dunedin Regional Office, Archives New Zealand: DAAC D239 9073 Box120.
Diary, Dunedin Regional Office, Archives New Zealand.
Pyke, William. Diary. State Library of Victoria MS 9429.
Register of Proprietors of Copyright of Literary, Dramatic and Musical Productions.NAA: A2389, 3.
Reports on Lunatic Asylums in New Zealand. Appendix to the Journals of the Houseof Representatives. AtoJS Online.
Requests to Register Under Copyright Act 1869forms requesting entry of proprietorship,v. 18, nos. 3000B to3199B. NAA: A2387, 18/3000B-3-3199B.
Taylor, G. N. Prison Record. Victorian Public Record Office VPRS 515/P1 25270.
Tremain, George (Carry Swain). Prison Record. NSW State Records. Digital IDs: 2232_a006_a00607_13804000067r;2138_a006_ a00603_6053000168r.
PRIMARY SOURCES
Alison, Jennifer. Doing Something for Australia: George Robertson and the Early Yearsof A&R, Publishers 18881900. (BSANZ Occasional Publication: 9). Melbourne: BSANZ,2009.
Altick, Richard. Nineteenth-century English Best Sellers. Studies in Bibliography,(22) 1969, 197206.
Angus, John. A History of the Dunedin Hospital Board and Its Predecessors. Dunedin:Otago Hospital Board, 1984.
Bell, Eric Sinclair. The Publishing History of Fergus Humes The Mystery of a HansomCab. Appendix, Victorian Detective Fiction: A Catalogue of the Collection made byDorothy Glover & Graham Greene. Bibliographically arranged by Eric Osborne. London:Bodley Head, 1966, 1236.
Bell, Ian. Alchemist of Kosmoid Hall. Herald Scotland, 16 Sept. 2013. http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/alchemist-of-kosmoid-hall-1.396953-of-kosmoid-hall-1.396953
Brickell, Chris. Manly Affections: The Photographs of Robert Gant, 18851915. Dunedin:Genre, 2012.
Campbell, Margaret [Ethel Anderson]. Music in Dunedin. Dunedin: Begg, 1945.
Campbell, Ronald G. The First Ninety Years: the Printing House of Massina, Melbourne,1859 to 1949. Melbourne: Massina, 1949.
Carr, John Dickson. The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. London: Murray, 1949.
Chambers, Haddon. 30 Years of Playwriting. New York Times, 13 Oct. 1918.
Chesser, Lucy. Parting with My Sex: Cross-Dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in AustralianCultural Life. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2008.
Clarke, Patricia. Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist. Melbourne:Melbourne University Publishing, 1999.
Coghlan, T. A. A Statistical Account of the Seven Colonies of Australia, 18978.
Cook, Matt. London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 18851914. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003.
Davenport, Sarah. In No Place for a Nervous Lady: Voices from the Australian Bush.Frost, Lucy (ed). Melbourne: McPhee-Gribble, 1984.
Davies, Suzanne. Sexuality, Performance, and Spectatorship in Law: The Case of GordonLawrence, 1888. Journal of the History of Sexuality, Jan. 1997, 389408.
Dixon, Robert. Closing the Can of Worms: Enactments of Justice in Bleak House, TheMystery of a Hansom Cab and The Tax Inspector. Westerly, 37.4 (1992), 3746.
Downes, Peter. Shadows on the Stage: Theatre in New Zealandthe First 70 Years. Dunedin:McIndoe, 1975.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. Lellenberg, Jon; Stashower,Daniel; and Foley, Charles (eds). New York: Penguin, 2007.
Drayton, Joanne. Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime. Sydney: HarperCollins, 2009.
Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. New York: Vintage, 1988.
Feece, Ignatius. The Great Cryptogammon: showing the real authorship of the HansomCab. Otago Witness, 14 Sept. 1888, 15.
Ferguson, W. Humer. A Blood-Curdling Romance: The Mystery of a Wheelbarrow, orGaboriau Gaborooed. London: Walter Scott, 1888.
Fletcher, Brian H. Magnificent Obsession: The Story of the Mitchell Library, Sydney.Sydney: Allen & Unwin, in association with the State Library of New South Wales,2007.
Frame, James. The Philosophy of Insanity, By a Late Inmate of the Glasgow Royal Asylumfor Lunatics at Gartnavel. Fromm-Reichmann, Frieda (intro). 1860. New York: Greenberg,1947.
Fredman, Lionel. Follow that Cab. Quadrant, 21 (4) Apr. 1977: 6366.
Gardner, P. D. Brief Notes on Some Fraudulent Aspects of the Secret Compositionsof William Lawrence Baillieu and Friends 1892.
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