Madame Midas

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by James McNeill Whistler, James 'Clock' Shaw and William Hamilton. A woman strikes gold in Ballarat, becomes the richest woman on the field, and finds an escaped French convict, the husband who deserted her and her own past all queuing for it. Hume wrote The Mystery of a Hansom Cab in Melbourne, published it himself when nobody would touch it, sol...