Mary Eliska Girl Detective:Aviatrix: The Mystery of The Social Flies: The Mystery of The Social Flies: The Mystery of The Social Flies:
William A. Stricklin
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Mary Eliska Girl Detective Girl Aviatrix
Title: Mary Eliska Girl Detective Girl Aviatrix - The Mystery of the Society of Flies
Acknowledgement of Original Author of The Mystery Queen Ferguson Wright
HumeFerguson Wright Hume (8 July 1859 - 12 July 1932), known as Fergus Hume, was a prolific English novelist.
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. 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 theaters to accept or even to read them. Hume first
came to attention after a play he had written, entitled The Bigamist was stolen by a rogue called Calthorpe, and
presented by him as his own work under the title The Mormon. Finding that the novels of Émile
Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, Hume obtained and read a set of them and determined to
write a novel of the same kind. The result was The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne, with
descriptions of poor urban life based on his knowledge of Little Bourke Street. It was self-published in
1886 and became a great success. Because he sold the British and American rights for 50 pounds, however, he
reaped little of the potential financial benefit. It became the best-selling mystery novel of the Victorian era;
in 1990 John Sutherland called it the "most sensationally popular crime and detective novel of the
century". This novel inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the
fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle remarked, "Hansom Cab was a slight tale, mostly
sold by 'puffing'." After the success of his first novel and the publication of another, Professor Brankel's
Secret (c. 1886), Hume returned to England in 1888. His third novel, Madame Midas, was based on the life of
the mine and newspaper owner Alice Ann Cornwell. After this book became a play her estranged husband,
John Whiteman, sued over its content. Hume settled back in England, first in London, but after a few years in
Thundersley, Essex at Church Cottage, probably at the invitation of the Reverend Thomas Noon Talfourd
Major. Hume lived in Thundersley for thirty years, publishing in excess of 130 novels, plus several collections -
most of them mystery stories, though he never recaptured the success of his first novel. The 1911 census lists
him as 'author', aged 51, and living at Church Cottage, Thundersley, which consisted of six rooms. He had a
housekeeper, Ada Louise Peck, a widow of 69. He regularly traveled to Italy, France and other European
countries. When the Rev Talfourd Major died in 1915, Hume had to leave Church Cottage. He moved to
'Rosemary Cottage', 34 Grandview Road, Thundersley, where he lived with John Joseph Melville and his wife.
Melville was a metallurgical chemist by profession, with a special study of alchemy. He knew Hebrew, Greek
and Latin and had been Vice-President of the British Phrenological Society for ten years. Hume was reputed to
be deeply religious and intensely private and known to avoid publicity, but in his later years he lectured at young
people's clubs and debating societies. He died at Thundersley on 12 July 1932 and lies in an unmarked grave
next to an actress and the Rev Maley. All he left in his will were some small items, like a horse blanket and a
pipe. His estate was valued at £201.
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