Fergus Hume: 210 books

It was close on ten o'clock when I awoke next morning. My long tramp of the previous day had tired me more than I thought. Nevertheless, I was annoyed at oversleeping myself, and astonished that Francis had not called me earlier. I knew how anxious he was about the proposed meeting with his brother,...

The caravan rolled slowly along the dusty road with creakings and groanings and jingling of horse-bells. It was painted a dark-green colour, with white-curtained windows picked out in rose pink, and bright red shafts and wheels. The corrugated iron roof showed no signs of exposure to wind, rain, or...

RED MONEY That's what the gypsy woman called it. "Red money because it is tainted with blood!" declared Mother Cockleshell, between her bouts of fortune telling amidst the Romany caravans parked in Abbott Wood on Lord Garvington's manor. And the blood flows freely on the manor, thanks to Miss Greeby! And the flames and the pain!

We had better lie down and die, said Robin peevishly. "I can't go a step further," and to emphasise his words he deliberately sat. "Infernal little duffer," growled Herrick. "Huh! Might have guessed you would Joyce." He threw himself down beside his companion and continued...

Shortly after graduation he left for Melbourne. He began writing plays, but found it impossible to persuade the managers of the Melbourne theatres to accept or even read them. Finding that the novels of Emile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, he obtained and read a set of them and determined to write a novel of a similar kind...

Motoring about the countryside in search of inspiration, melodramatist Cyrus Vance runs out of gas at the door of a remote shop. Having filled his tank, he searches for the proprietor, only to discover her dead, himself locked in, and someone driving away with his car. Once he has convinced the excited...

"What IS your name?" "Susan Grant, Miss Loach." "Call me ma'am. I am Miss Loach only to my equals. Your age?" "Twenty-five, ma'am." "Do you know your work as parlor-maid thoroughly?" "Yes, ma'am. I was two years in one place and six months in...

A wild bleak-looking coast, with huge water-worn promontories jutting out into the sea, daring the tempestuous fury of the waves, which dashed furiously in sheets of seething foam against the iron rocks. Two of these headlands ran out for a considerable distance, and at the base of each, ragged cruel-looking...

Excerpt: ...have failed to notice that glance of Miriam's, and, having noticed it, to remark that the name Tracey was there in all the largeness of print upon a list of voters hanging on the wall. As it was he noticed nothing of the kind. "Jabez Tracey," he repeated. "Well, let me hear some of the...

“ I am very angry,” pouted the maid. “ In heaven’s name, why?” questioned the bachelor. “ You have, so to speak, bought me.” “ Impossible: your price is prohibitive.” “ Indeed, when a thousand pounds—” “ You are worth fifty and a hundred times as much. Pooh!” “ That interjection...

L'étrange affaire du meurtre de Jentham a continué d'attirer l'attention du public de Beorminster tout au long de la semaine; et le jour où l'enquête a eu lieu, l'excitation populaire s'est élevée à la fièvre. L'inspecteur Tinkler, estimant que le comté s'attendait à ce qu'il fasse de grandes...

En dépit de la plus grande vigilance de la part de la police et de l'offre d'une récompense importante, à la fois par Calton, au nom de l'accusé, et par M. Frettlby, le bien désiré Sal Rawlins est toujours resté caché. Le millionnaire avait maintenu une attitude des plus amicales envers Brian...

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