| The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume, Fiction, Horror, Mystery & Detective, Action & Adventure Contributor(s): Hume, Fergus (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606649175 ISBN-13: 9781606649176 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: "Oh!" The widow jumped and quavered as the lid of the coffin-shaped packing case fell on the floor with a bang. "Oh lord, sir, the start you did give me!" But Braddock had no eyes for her, and no ears for anyone. He pulled eagerly at the straw packing until the floor was littered. But no green case appeared . . . and where was the promised relic? Suddenly Widow Anne shrieked again. "There's my Sid -- dead -- oh, my son, dead! dead!" She spoke truly. The body of Sidney Bolton was there before them, where Braddock had expected to find an ancient mummy. Fergus Hume (1859-1932) was author of novels of mystery and detection including "The Secret Passage" and "The Silent House in Pimlico." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 212 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Hume, Fergus: - "Fergusson Wright Hume (1859 - 1932), known as Fergus Hume, was a prolific English novelist. Finding that the novels of Emile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, Hume obtained and read a set of them and determined to write a novel of the same kind. The result was The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne, with descriptions of poor urban life based on his knowledge of Little Bourke Street. It was self-published in 1886 and became a great success. Because he sold the British and American rights for 50 pounds, however, he reaped little of the potential financial benefit. It became the best-selling mystery novel of the Victorian era; in 1990 John Sutherland called it the "most sensationally popular crime and detective novel of the century." This novel inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle remarked, "Hansom Cab was a slight tale, mostly sold by 'puffing'." After the success of his first novel and the publication of another, Professor Brankel's Secret (c.?1886), Hume returned to England in 1888. His third novel was titled Madame Midas and it was based on the life of the mine and newspaper owner Alice Ann Cornwell. This book became a play and her estranged husband, John Whiteman, sued over its content. Hume resided in London for a few years and then moved to the Essex countryside where he lived in Thundersley for 30 years. Eventually he produced more than 100 novels and short stories." |
