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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab received praise in works including A Companion to Crime Fiction, [2] A History of the Book in Australia 1891–1945, [3] and A History of Victoria, [4] and was featured in the book Vintage Mystery and Detective Stories. [5] A parody version was published in 1888, and film adaptations were produced in 1911, 1915 and 1925.
The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, ... The book Farewell Victoria ... (PDF) on April 24, 2013
The Suicide Club is an 1878 collection of three 19th-century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative. First published in the London Magazine in 1878, they were collected and republished in the first volume of the New Arabian Nights.
Doyle remarked, "Hansom Cab was a slight tale, mostly sold by 'puffing'." [2] After the success of his first novel and the publication of another, Professor Brankel's Secret (c. 1886), Hume returned to England in 1888. [3] His third novel, Madame Midas, was based on the life of the mine and newspaper owner Alice Ann Cornwell.
Then, in 1834, the hansom cab was patented by Joseph Hansom: a jaunty single-horse, two-wheel carriage with a distinctive appearance, designed to carry passengers safely in an urban environment. The hansom cab quickly established itself as the standard two-wheel hackney carriage and remained in use into the 20th century. [13] London growler c. 1900
In 1862 Joseph Hansom formed a partnership with Edward Welby Pugin, which broke up acrimoniously in 1863. Finally, in 1869, he took his son Joseph Stanislaus Hansom into partnership. Hansom lived at 27 Sumner Place, South Kensington, London, and there is a blue plaque there in his memory. [7] Hansom moved to manage an estate at Caldecote Hall.
These also included hansom cabs, a more elaborate type with a closed-in cabin for passengers with two small front doors and glass windows and their driver sitting high at the back. This type of vehicle was a standard type used in England. Hansom cabs were used in Brisbane until 1935, operating from a rank outside the Supreme Court in George Street.
"The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" is a 1961 Australian television drama play based on Barry Pree's 1961 play adaptation of the novel by Fergus Hume. [1] It appeared as an episode of the anthology series The General Motors Hour. It aired on 6 August 1961 in Sydney [2] and on 19 August 1961 in Melbourne. [3]