Fergus Hume

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

486

Fergus Hume - Lady Jim of Curzon Street

Faced with bankruptcy and trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lady Jim Kaims has to solve her problems alone. After every decent way fails her, and with no friend to assist, she resorts to committing crimes. Fergus Hume...

Jim Locke 15 hours 8 minutes

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Detective Fiction

464

Fergus Hume - Madame Midas

Hume was born in England, the second son of Dr James Hume. At the age of three his father emigrated with his family to Dunedin, New Zealand. He was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885. Shortly after graduation he...

Lucy Burgoyne 13 hours 17 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

532

Fergus Hume - Bishop's Secret

Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit from a disreputable-looking visitor. The bishop is much upset. What...

David Wales 12 hours 41 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

484

Fergus Hume - Silver Bullet

Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin are on a walking tour in the English countryside when they come across a large house where all the lights in the house are on and all of the doors are open. While trying to find...

Richard Kilmer 12 hours 14 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

460

Fergus Hume - Spider

Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begun a private investigation agency under the name “Nemo.” It would be...

Don W. Jenkins 10 hours 7 minutes

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Single Author Collections

465

Fergus Hume - Dwarf's Chamber And Other Stories

Short Stories by Fergus Hume (1859 – 1932), a prolific English novelist. — Summary by wikipedia

David Wales 10 hours 6 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

564

Fergus Hume - Sacred Herb

A rich playboy comes home from travels abroad and is bully-ragged by his eccentric aunt into finding meaning for his life. This he does by helping a school chum save his fiancée from the gallows and the playboy falls...

Sharon Kilmer 10 hours

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

467

Fergus Hume - Red Money

Greed and lost love collide to create dark secrets. Through twists and turns, corrupt aristocrats let family and honor overshadow love and true happiness. In the end, evil passes and good endures. (Summary by Sharon...

Sharon Kilmer 9 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

458

Fergus Hume - Opal Serpent

An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparently the heir of his large estate. But another claimant has made herself known...

Richard Kilmer 9 hours 44 minutes

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Detective Fiction

527

Fergus Hume - Secret Passage

Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: «That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek,...

Dawn Larsen and 6 more 9 hours 11 minutes

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Detective Fiction

461

Fergus Hume - Coin Of Edward VII

A family celebrates Christmas and its flaws are gently exposed by the house guest Mrs. Parry. Giles is engaged to the wealthy Daisy, yet is clearly in love with the governess Anne Denham. Things come to a head when...

Marcelle D Ward and 1 more 8 hours 27 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

486

Fergus Hume - Red Window

Two former school friends, now both military men, meet again and discover both are trying to lose themselves to public gaze. Dick West has inherited the family estate, but is out of favor. «The Red Window» was used...

Lynne T and 8 more 8 hours 24 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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