Lucy Sussex: 2 books
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Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
**Before there was Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, there was Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab—the biggest, and fastest-selling, detective novel of the 1800s, and Australia’s first literary blockbuster.
Fergus Hume was an aspiring playwright when he moved from Dunedin...
by Lucy Sussex
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Why are certain subjects so difficult to talk about? What is justice? Why do writers think that other people’s lives are fair game? And what do we really know about the first chemist?
A story about history, women, science (and also the demonic); a crime story, based upon a true crime; a...