Title : The Mystery of the Hansom Cab - Fergus Hume - Book

Summary :

One evening, Malcolm Royston, a Melbourne cab driver, discovers he is transporting the body of a man who has clearly been murdered. Aside from a Russian leather cigarette case and the silk handkerchief used to chloroform the victim, there are no documents or distinguishing marks to identify him. Melbourne police detective Samuel Gorby will lead an investigation full of surprises, taking him from the city's wealthy neighborhoods to its most sordid slums.
Published in 1886, The Mystery of the Hansom Cab is one of the most famous works of detective fiction. It was the first crime novel to achieve best-selling status, outselling the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

"The mystery of the Hansom Cab, behind its apparent ease, is above all a novel of contemporary social tensions and one will be surprised here by the outcome of an incredible immorality..." (Xavier Legrand-Ferronnière, extract from the preface)

• EAN: 9782743614942
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