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"Absorbing, at times fascinating."<i>Sydney Morning Herald</i>"Told with wit and lightly worn scholarship. . . . Sussex has written a fine, thoroughly engaging and multifaceted history."<i>The Australian</i>"Sussex skillfully assembles the know information about a very private man and his times, and reveals a Victorian world whose machinations and mysteries are equal to those of his most famous fiction."<i>Stuff NZ</i>"Part literary criticism, part biography, part historyit succeeds admirably. It is well researched and well written, and evokes the literary scene in 1880s Melbourne in an informative yet entertaining way."<i>Books + Publishing</i>Before Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, there was Fergus Hume's <i>The Mystery of a Hansom Cab</i>the biggest and fastest-selling detective novel of the 1800s, and Australia's first literary blockbuster. The novel sold out its first run almost instantly and became a bestsellerbut Hume sold the copyright for a mere £50, missing out on a potential fortune.<i>Blockbuster! </i>is the engrossing story of a book that would help define the genre of crime fiction. A must-read for fans of true crime, history and crime fiction alike.<b>Lucy Sussex</b>'s award-winning fiction includes books for younger readers and the novel<i>The Scarlet Rider</i>.
