"A MELBOURNE NOVEL."
We have to acknowledge receipt of a sensational Melbourne novel, which has recently been published, entitled " The Mystery of a Hansom Cab." It is written by Mr. F. W. Hume, an old Dunedin man, and is after tho style of Conway's "Called Back." Some 2200 copies of the work were sold within three days of its publication. The leading incident of the novel is a murder committed in the small hours of the morning, through the agency of chloroform, in a hansom cab, on the St. Kilda Road. The author of the fiction adroitly directs suspicion to two persons, each of whom eventually proves to be innocent, while both have urgent private reasons for desiring to shelter the real culprit from detection and punishment, and the mystery is cleverly concealed to the finish of the atory. It will be seen from our advertising columns that Mr. Chapman, bookseller, has copies of this work for sale.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7800, 20 November 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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