The Fever of Life

Fergus Hume, the renowned English novelist, was born Fergusson Wright Hume on July 8, 1859, in England but spent significant parts of his life in New Zealand and later in Australia. Hume's literary fame is anchored largely in the realm of detective fiction, where he made an indelible mark with his bestselling novel 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab' (1886), which outstripped the sales of Arthur Conan D...