Reading The Mystery of a Hansom Cab | Alexandria
Read The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume. Tracking a murderer through Victorian Melbourne's seedy underbelly, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab exposed social hypocrisy years before Sherlock Holmes hit his stride. This groundbreaking thriller outsold Conan Doyle's works despite modern obscurity, revealing how scandal and status collide when a wealthy man is found poisoned in a common cab. Its twist? The real crime was society's moral decay.