Madame Midas

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513278827
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Midas written by Fergus Hume and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame Midas (1888) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, Madame Midas is a gripping novel with forbidden romance and a tightly wound mystery worthy of the best of Victorian fiction. From an author whose work inspired Arthur Conan Doyle, Madame Midas is a story of fortune and loss set in the shadow of Australia’s nineteenth century gold rush. In the mid-nineteenth century, Robert Curtis—along with countless other desperate and adventurous men—journeyed to Australia in search of fortune. Having established a successful mine in Ballarat, Curtis settled in Melbourne, where he married and had a daughter. In her youth, Miss Curtis was the talk of the town, and though she could have chosen any man for her husband, she found herself attracted to Mr. Villiers, a charming-yet-suspicious gentleman. Not long after their wedding, his intentions become all too clear, and soon his gambling threatens to erase the Curtis fortune. Outraged and disgraced, Mrs. Villiers flees to Ballarat, where she turns her attention to managing her father’s mine. Known to the local people as Madame Midas, she maintains a hard exterior in order not only to hide the truth of her past, but to guard herself from the cruelty of men. When a pair of escaped prisoners lands on the nearby shore, however, her newfound security faces a formidable threat. Madame Midas is a tale of love lost and found, of violence and greed in a country built on shallow, unstable foundations. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Fergus Hume’s Madame Midas is a classic of Australian mystery and detective fiction reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Mephistopheles written by Fergus Hume and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Miss Mephistopheles" (A Novel (Sequel to Madame Midas.)) by Fergus Hume. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781515059554
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Midas written by Fergus Hume and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild bleak-looking coast, with huge water-worn promontories jutting out into the sea, daring the tempestuous fury of the waves, which dashed furiously in sheets of seething foam against the iron rocks. Two of these headlands ran out for a considerable distance, and at the base of each, ragged cruel-looking rocks stretched still further out into the ocean until they entirely disappeared beneath the heaving waste of waters, and only the sudden line of white foam every now and then streaking the dark green waves betrayed their treacherous presence to the idle eye.

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781715856298
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Midas (Esprios Classics) written by Fergus Hume and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferguson Wright Hume (1859-1932), known as Fergus Hume, was a prolific English novelist. Shortly after graduation Hume relocated to Melbourne, Australia, where he obtained a job as a barristers' clerk. He began writing plays, but found it impossible to persuade the managers of Melbourne theatres to accept or even to read them. Finding that the novels of Émile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, Hume determined to write a novel of the same kind. The result was The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne. It was self-published in 1886 and became a great success. After the success of his first novel and the publication of another, Professor Brankel's Secret (c. 1886), Hume returned to England in 1888.

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368336649
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Midas written by Fergus Hume and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Author : Fegus Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Midas written by Fegus Hume and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire, England, the second son of James C. Hume, a Scot and clerk and steward at the County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum there. When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, where he was educated at Otago Boys' High School and studied law at the University of Otago. He was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885.

Author : Fergus Fergus Hume
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985821309
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Mephistopheles a Novel, (Sequel to Madame Midas. ) written by Fergus Fergus Hume and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame Midas -- that is what they call Mrs. Villiers, living in the Australian mining town of Ballarat. She once possessed enormous wealth, built up over the years by her loving father -- and then learned the least pleasant of lessons, marrying an Englishman whose true colors were soon unfurled at every nearby gambling and drinking establishment. But having left him behind, and establishing herself in Ballarat, she has found herself possessed of enough acumen to make a success of herself, and to earn to respect of all. Now into her world arrive two strangers -- a pair of Frenchmen who have made a desperate escape from prison on a tiny boat upon the sea, and who hope to find fortune and a new life on this rugged coast. The society of Ballarat may witness budding romance -- perhaps . . . and murder, most certainly. Fergus Hume (1859-1932) was author of novels of mystery and detection including The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, The Secret Passage and The Silent House.

Author : Joseph A. Kestner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135190034X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherlock's Sisters written by Joseph A. Kestner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 examines the fictional female detective in Victorian and Edwardian literature. This character, originating in the 1860s, configures a new representation of women in narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This analysis explores female empowerment through professional unofficial or official detection, especially as this surveillance illuminates legal, moral, gendered, institutional, criminal, punitive, judicial, political, and familial practices. This book considers a range of literary texts by both female and male writers which concentrate on detection by women, particularly those which followed the creation of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. Cultural movements, such as the emergence of the New Woman, property law or suffragism, are stressed in the exploits of these resourceful investigators. These daring women deal with a range of crimes, including murder, blackmail, terrorism, forgery, theft, sexual harassment, embezzlement, fraud, impersonation and domestic violence. Privileging the exercise of reason rather than intuition, these women detectives are proto-feminist in their demonstration of women's independence. Instead of being under the law, these women transform it. Their investigations are given particular edge because many of the perpetrators of these crimes are women. Sherlock's Sisters probes many texts which, because of their rarity, have been under-researched. Writers such as Beatrice Heron-Maxwell, Emmuska Orczy, L.T. Meade, Catherine Pirkis, Fergus Hume, Grant Allen, Leonard Merrick, Marie Belloc Lowndes, George Sims, McDonnell Bodkin and Richard Marsh are here incorporated into the canon of Victorian and Edwardian literature, many for the first time. A writer such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon is reassessed through a neglected novel. The book includes works by Irish and Australian writers to present an inclusive array of British texts. Sherlock's Sisters enlarges the perception of emerging female empowerment during the nineteenth century, filling an important gap in the fields of Gender Studies, Law/Literature and Popular Culture.

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781697544695
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Midas written by Fergus Hume and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling tale of murder and crime by Fergus Hume. Although this is a stand-alone mystery, it is also the sequel to "Madame Midas." This is a Green Bird Publication of a quality mystery novel by Fergus Hume.

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8075831624
Total Pages : 4199 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BRITISH MYSTERIES - Fergus Hume Collection: 21 Thriller Novels in One Volume written by Fergus Hume and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 4199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Fergus Hume thriller collection is formatted to the highest digital standards. The edition incorporates an interactive table of contents, footnotes and other information relevant to the content which makes the reading experience meticulously organized and enjoyable. Fergus Hume (1859-1932) was a prolific English novelist. His self-published novel, "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab", became a great success. Hume based his descriptions of poor urban life on his knowledge of Little Bourke Street. It eventually became the best selling mystery novel of the Victorian era, author John Sutherland terming it the "most sensationally popular crime and detective novel of the century". Table of Contents: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Professor Brankel's Secret Madame Midas The Harlequin Opal The Expedition of Captain Flick Hagar of the Pawn-Shop The Silent House The Bishop's Secret A Woman's Burden The Pagan's Cup A Coin of Edward VII The Mandarin's Fan The Red Window The Secret Passage The Opal Serpent The Green Mummy The Crowned Skull The Solitary Farm The Mystery Queen Red Money A Son of Perdition