Fergus Hume: 210 books

Set in Melbourne, Australia, this tale of intrigue and murder was the bestselling crime novel of the nineteenth century In the early morning hours, two men enter a hansom cab. When the first man exits the cab, the driver continues on to the second’s destination—only to discover upon arrival...

Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...

British Mystery Multipack Vol. 15 presents four brilliant mysteries from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction: The Paradise Mystery by J. S. Fletcher. In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis. The Wooden Hand - A Detective Story by Fergus Hume. The Maxwell Mystery by Carolyn Wells.

These two short crime novels from the Victorian period depict a threatening night-time London, where murder lurks in the fog...  In Fergus Hume's The Piccadilly Puzzle (1889), the private detective Dowker is called upon to investigate the death of a beautiful woman, whose body is found...

Fergus Hume was a 20th century American author who had many works adapted into screenplays and movies, such as The Top Dog. Popular titles like The Silent House are still widely read today.

A man is found poisoned at the foot of Cleopatra's Needle on London's Embankment, apparently having taken his own life. His identity is a mystery that Octavius Rixton (alias Octavius Fanks, detective) is determined to solve. A mysterious cryptogram leads Fanks to believe that oriental antiquities...

The Millionaire Mystery is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Shortly after the death of millionaire Richard Marlow, the village of Heathton is rocked by the discover that the body has been stolen. Further proof that something very nasty is afoot comes when Marlow's friend Dr. Warrander is discovered...

The Clock Struck One written by a prolific English novelist Fergus Hume. This book is one of many works by him. It has already Published in 1898. Now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally...

Fergus Hume's Gothic mystery begins one evening in late-nineteenth-century Verona, when a young Englishman loses his way and finds himself lost in an eerie graveyard. Seeing a mysterious woman emerge from one of the tombs, he follows her to a deserted mansion, where he witnesses a murder worthy of...

The truly sensational story of a man's life come to the foreground and the subject of this remarkable mystery by Fergus Hume.  During a voyage from Australia to Britain, Ronald Monteith is fascinated by fellow-traveller, Lionel Ventin. One sultry evening, shortly before arriving at Malta, Ventin...

Fergus Hume (1859-1932) was an English novelist. His first novel "The Mystery of a Hansome Cab" became the best-selling mystery novel of the Victorian era. The Novel "The Clock Struck One" was published in 1898.

A fortune hunter expected home from a diamond mining expedition to South Africa turns up murdered, with his false hand missing. Suspects abound, including the fiancé of the dead man’s daughter. But why was the adventurer murdered? And why did the killer steal his victim’s wooden hand? This...

A thrilling and romantic tale of deceit and love, greed and avarice, and finally, resolution and understanding.  This is one of Fergus Hume's favorite novels and one of his finest.

The Lady from Nowhere written by Fergus Hume who  was a prolific English novelist.  This book is one of many works of him. It has already Published in 1900. Now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean...