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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. (2012) Melbourne, 1886. Op een duistere avond nemen twee mannen een rijtuig. Eén man stapt uit en de ander gaat door. Bij aankomst blijkt de tweede man vermoord te zijn. Dit schokt de stad. Het slachtoffer, de Engelsman Oliver Whyte, stond in hoog aanzien bij kolonies rijke man Mark Frettlby.
Ever since the publication of this 1886 mystery, the two-wheeled carriage known as a hansom cab has been linked in the popular imagination with sinister affairs. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was the unlikely first literary product of a young barrister's clerk and quickly rose from its obscure initial publication to become one of the 19th century's bestselling detective novels.
The General Motors Hour. ) " The Mystery of a Hansom Cab " is a 1961 Australian television drama play based on Barry Pree's 1961 play adaptation of the novel by Fergus Hume. [1] It appeared as an episode of the anthology series The General Motors Hour. It aired on 6 August 1961 in Sydney [2] and on 19 August 1961 in Melbourne.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is a re-issue in 1935 of the 1925 Australian silent film of the same name based on the 1886 novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume. It was released by Pathescope .
A timeless narrative of suspense and intrigue, Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886) is the original Australian best-selling crime novel set in pre-Federation Melbourne. From the salons of the city's elite to the slums of Little Bourke St, the exquisitely plotted story follows the investigation, inquest and trial of the murder of a little-known English migrant.
Recent reviews. Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda. On arrival, the driver finds the second man dead; murdered. The ‘high-society’ killing sends shockwaves through the young city, still flush from its gold-rush boom.
