The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Fergus Hume
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Fergus Hume
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Author: Fergus Hume

Narrator: Toby Webster

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2020

Synopsis

Mr. Royston is driving his hansom through the night-time streets of Melbourne when he is hailed by a man supporting a slumped, intoxicated figure, and requesting that the cabman take the unfortunate fellow home - before proceeding to drop his burden and make a rapid exit. Bundling the drunken man onto the seat, the cabman is startled by the reappearance of the good Samaritan, who joins his acquaintance inside - but jumps out before the end of the journey. And when Royston, receiving no response to his inquiries about directions, peers into the cab, he finds that his passenger is now a corpse...

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Goodreads review by Nikoleta on September 12, 2019

3,5/5 αστεράκια......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on December 29, 2017

The bottom line is that I really liked this book -- another ahhhhh read in my history-of-mystery project for 2017. It is yet another one, like The Leavenworth Case that comes right down to the wire in unmasking the killer, and yet another that belongs in the category of classic mystery fiction. The......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on April 23, 2013

I asked a Goodreads friend from Down Under what Australian and New Zealand books she’d recommend to an ignorant Yank like me. I’d only read Australian Kerry Greenwood and Germaine Greer and Kiwi Ngaio Marsh up to that point. Magda was kind enough to send me a long list of excellent authors, includin......more

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