The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473378974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
This early work by Fergus Hume was originally published in 1886 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab' is a tricky tale set in Australia and is Hume's most famous crime novel. Fergusson Wright Hume was born on 8th July 1859 in England, the second son of Dr. James Hume. The family migrated to New Zealand where Fergus was enrolled at Otago Boys' High School, and later continued his legal and literary studies at the University of Otago. Hume returned to England in 1888 where he resided in London for a few years until moving to the Essex countryside. There he published over 100 novels, mainly in the mystery fiction genre, though none had the success of his début work.

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465560769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 555

Book Description

Crimson Snow

Author: Martin Edwards
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1464206767
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "Edwards's second winter-themed anthology in the British Library Crime Classics series is a standout. As in the most successful of such volumes, the editor's expertise results in a selection of unusual suspects, expanding readers' knowledge." —Publishers Weekly STARRED review Crimson Snow brings together a dozen vintage crime stories set in winter. Welcome to a world of Father Christmases behaving oddly, a famous fictional detective in a Yuletide drama, mysterious tracks in the snow, and some very unpleasant carol singers. There's no denying that the supposed season of goodwill is a time of year that lends itself to detective fiction. On a cold night, it's tempting to curl up by the fireside with a good mystery. And more than that, claustrophobic house parties, with people cooped up with long-estranged relatives, can provide plenty of motives for murder. Including forgotten stories by major writers such as Margery Allingham, as well as classic tales by less familiar crime novelists, each story in this selection is introduced by the leading expert on classic crime, Martin Edwards. The resulting volume is an entertaining and atmospheric compendium of wintry delights.

Madame Midas

Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473379016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
This early work by Fergus Hume was originally published in 1888 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Madame Midas' is a tale of Australian mining life. Fergusson Wright Hume was born on 8th July 1859 in England, the second son of Dr. James Hume. The family migrated to New Zealand where Fergus was enrolled at Otago Boys' High School, and later continued his legal and literary studies at the University of Otago. Hume returned to England in 1888 where he resided in London for a few years until moving to the Essex countryside. There he published over 100 novels, mainly in the mystery fiction genre, though none had the success of his début work.

Red Money

Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
A self-absorbed and greedy gentleman, falling into debt, pressures his sister to marry a loveless rich man so that the gentleman can suck as much money as possible out of his spouse. The sister then does so, and with honour she represses the love she feels for her cousin, who is poor and heir to the title. And the cousin also has an honorable way about her, staying away from her and painting a beautiful gypsy girl in a little house in the woods, near the gypsy camp.

The Secret Passage

Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368332368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
Reproduction of the original.

The Bishop's Secret

Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752317221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume

Get Real:

Author: Edward Rommen
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
ISBN: 1645086070
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
The Gospel is more than information about the death and resurrection of our Lord. It is an invitation to enter, by way of personal faith, into a relationship with the person referenced by our propositions. Our task as believers is to mediate saving communion with a personal being upon whose will our very existence is contingent. It is precisely this personal aspect of our message, the Gospel-as-Person, that is in conflict with the late-modern notions of the Self and social discourse. Get Real: On Evangelism in the Late Modern World describes how the late-modern phenomena of existential anxiety, social alienation, and epistemic uncertainty have resulted in what some have called “the loss of Self.” It also identifies ways in which that loss obstructs both the presentation of and the reception of the Gospel-as-Person. Finally, it shows how the Gospel-as-Person facilitates the recovery of the Self and social discourse, and how that message can be effectively presented in the late-modern context.

Vintage Mystery and Detective Stories

Author: David Stuart Davies
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840220650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1284

Book Description
This is a richly entertaining collection of stories from the golden age of crime fiction - a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth with only his own intelligence to rely on

Criminal Moves

Author: Jesper Gulddal
Publisher: Liverpool English Texts and St
ISBN: 1789620589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Criminal Moves is a ground-breaking collection of essays that challenges the distinction between literary and popular fiction and proposes that crime fiction is a genre that constantly violates its own boundaries. Reorienting crime fiction studies towards the mobility of the genre, it has profound ramifications for how we read individual crime stories.