Fergus Hume

Fergus Hume (1859–1932) scored an enormous hit with The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), for a time the best-selling detective novel in the world. Astonishingly prolific thereafter, he ranged into supernatural and speculative fiction, lost-race adventures and occult mysteries, across some 140 books. A characteristic engine of Victorian-Edwardian popular fiction.