A Walk on the Mean Streets

This walk will be hosted by Dr Lucy Sussex, an expert on Australian detective fiction, visiting some of the sites of Melbourne featured in the books of Fergus Hume, the author of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.

Lucy Sussex is the author of the much-praised book Blockbuster (Text Publishing, 2015), which tells the stories of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab and of Fergus Hume, who lived in Melbourne from 1885 to 1888. Hume wrote three mysteries that were set in and around Melbourne, before he returned the UK in mid-1888, to the London of Jack the Ripper.

The walk will be illustrated by readings of extracts from the three Australian works of Fergus Hume, starting at Scots’ Church on the corner of Collins and Russell Streets and ending in George Street, East Melbourne. Maximum number of participants 25.

Presented as part of Melbourne Rare Book Week.

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