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The Millionaire Mystery (Detective Club Crime Classics)
Fergus Hume
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Description for The Millionaire Mystery (Detective Club Crime Classics)
Hardcover. Series: The Detective Club. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 126. Weight in Grams: 270.
Fergus Hume was renowned as the bestselling mystery writer of Victorian times after his first book, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, broke all records. In 1901 he returned to form with this ingenious tale, selected to represent Hume's prolific output by Collins' Detective Club panel in 1930. Cicero Gramp was, according to himself, a `professor of elocution and eloquence' - to anyone else he was no more than an engaging and extremely craft vagabond. Hence it was that he found himself awakened from his ... Read more
Fergus Hume was renowned as the bestselling mystery writer of Victorian times after his first book, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, broke all records. In 1901 he returned to form with this ingenious tale, selected to represent Hume's prolific output by Collins' Detective Club panel in 1930. Cicero Gramp was, according to himself, a `professor of elocution and eloquence' - to anyone else he was no more than an engaging and extremely craft vagabond. Hence it was that he found himself awakened from his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Series
The Detective Club
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780008137625
SKU
V9780008137625
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99-99
About Fergus Hume
Fergus Hume was born in England in 1859 and raised in Dunedin, New Zealand. He studied Law at the University of Otago and after graduation relocated to Melbourne, Australia as a barristers' clerk. Inspired by the crime novels of Emile Gaboriau, he wrote the novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne, which became the best-selling mystery novel ... Read more
Reviews for The Millionaire Mystery (Detective Club Crime Classics)
`The most sensationally popular crime and detective novel of the century' John Sutherland