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Publishing history is full of strange tales, and that recounted by Lucy Sussex in "Blockbuster! Fergus Hume & the Mystery of a Hansom Cab" is certainly among the strangest and most poignant. In late ...

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2006 does not seem to be a good year for Hansom Cabs. First there was that nasty accident that put a driver into a coma and led to a horse being put down, then came the ASPCA's very vocal push to get ...

Based on the best-selling novel by Fergus Hume. Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one night. One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda. On arrival, the driver ...

Sadly, Hume sold the copyright for £50 and died in England at 73 on the edge of genteel poverty. This was despite having written scores of “shilling shockers”, albeit none so successful as his first.

Carmelo Vargas, the hansom cab driver injured when his horse crashed into a station wagon at Ninth Avenue and 50th Street, is in a coma. Vargas had only been riding horse-drawn carriages around the ...