The Secret Passage: A Mystery of a London Suburb
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A miserly old woman is found murdered in her cottage at Rexton, a London suburb, where a passage runs that nobody knew about, and a girl who came to England to find her mother is accused. Hume wrote The Mystery of a Hansom Cab in Melbourne in 1886, published it himself when nobody would touch it, sold the rights for fifty pounds and watched it become the bestselling detective novel of the century; he wrote a hundred and thirty more, and this is one of the better ones. Sixty plates of city streets and shadowed interiors by Walter Sickert and George Hendrik Breitner give the London suburb and its hidden passage the look of the 1890s.
A miserly old woman is found murdered in her cottage at Rexton, a London suburb, where a passage runs that nobody knew about, and a girl who came to England to find her mother is accused. Hume wrote The Mystery of a Hansom Cab in Melbourne in 1886, published it himself when nobody would touch it,...
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Fergus Hume (1859–1932), born in England, worked as a lawyer in Australia before becoming a full-time writer. He produced many mystery novels, including Madame Midas (1888) and The Secret Passage (1905).
Fergus Hume (1859–1932), born in England, worked as a lawyer in Australia before becoming a full-time writer. He produced many mystery novels, including Madame Midas (1888) and The Secret Passage (1905).
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