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Simon Caterson
Books & arts
Fergus Hume’s startling story
Simon Caterson
8 May 2012
An overnight sensation when it was published in Melbourne in 1886,
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
played a key role the development of crime fiction, writes
Simon Caterson