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Miss Mephistopheles: A Novel

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By (author): Fergus Hume

Miss Mephistopheles (1890) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, Miss Mephistopheles is a gripping novel with forbidden romance and a tightly wound mystery worthy of the best of Victorian fiction. A sequel to Madame Midas (1888), a story of fortune and loss set in the shadow of Australias nineteenth century gold rush, Miss Mephistopheles examines the solidarity between women abused and abandoned by men.

Having lost her family fortune to a deceitful husband, Mrs. Villiers flees to Ballarat, where she turns her attention to managing her fathers mine. Known to the local people as Madame Midas, she maintains a hard exterior in order not only to hide the truth of her past, but to guard herself from the cruelty of men. There, she rescues a young girl named Kitty Marchurst, a preachers daughter misled by a wicked ex-convict. Raising her daughter Meg, Marchurst becomes a star in the Melbourne burlesque scene, acquiring wealth and fame beyond her wildest dreams. When her beloved diamonds are stolen, however, her worldand the city itselfthreaten to come crashing down. Enmeshed in this mystery are an American insurance agent and Mrs. Villiers estranged husband, shadowy figures who move in and out of respectable society looking for vulnerable marks. Miss Mephistopheles is a tale of violence and greed set in a country built on wealth gathered too quickly to last.

With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Fergus Humes Miss Mephistopheles is a classic of Australian mystery and detective fiction reimagined for modern readers.

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  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Apr 2021
  • Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781513278353

About Fergus Hume

Fergus Hume (1859-1932) was an English novelist. Born in Worcestershire Hume was the son of a civil servant of Scottish descent. At the age of three he moved with his family to Dunedin New Zealand where he attended Otago Boys High School. In 1885 after graduating from the University of Otago with a degree in law Hume was admitted to the New Zealand bar. He moved to Melbourne Australia where he worked as a clerk and embarked on his career as a writer with a series of plays. After struggling in vain to find success as a playwright Hume turned to novels with The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886) a story of mystery and urban poverty that eventually became one of the most successful works of fiction of the Victorian era. Hume who returned to England in 1888 would go on to publish over 100 novels and stories earning a reputation as a leading writer of popular fiction and inspiring such figures as Arthur Conan Doyle whose early detective novels were modeled after Humes. Despite the resounding success of his debut work of fiction Hume died in relative obscurity at a modest cottage in Thundersley.

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