The Wooden Hand

Fergusson Wright Hume, known as Fergus Hume (1859–1932), was a prolific English novelist. His literary career began with an ambitious genre that he would come to be significantly associated with—the mystery novel. Hume was born in England but moved to New Zealand as a child with his family. Later, he relocated to Melbourne, Australia, where he was admitted to the Bar, although law eventually took ...