Project Status Report: 28th February 2025
Third Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL'.
Successes
- Read Better Left Dead, Catherine Lea (review to come)
- Read ...Read more
Sussex, Lucy
Project Status Report: 1st April 2025
Fourth Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL'.
As always - the last fortnight entries and The Next Up Reading List in full.
Successes...Read more
Blockbuster! Fergus Hume and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Before there was Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, there was Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab—the biggest- and fastest-selling detective novel of the 1800s, and Australia’s first literary blockbuster.
Fergus Hume was an aspiring playwright when he moved from...Read more
Blockbuster! Fergus Hume and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Lucy Sussex
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, written in the mid 1880s, was a world-wide publishing phenomenon. The story of its publication deserves a book like Blockbuster!. Reviewed at ...Read more
Outrageous Fortunes
The gripping story of Australia's first female crime writer and her career-criminal son
When Mary Fortune arrived in Melbourne with her infant son in 1855, she was determined to reinvent herself. The Victorian goldfields were just the place.
After a time selling...Read more