Author:Fergus Hume

Fergus Hume
(1859–1932)

Fergus Hume

Works

Individual works

• The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886)
• Professor Brankel's Secret (1886)
• Madame Midas (1888)
• The Girl from Malta (1889)
• The Gentleman Who Vanished: A Psychological Phantasy (1890, aka The Man Who Vanished)
• Miss Mephistopheles (1890, aka Tracked by Fate)
• The Year of Miracle: A Tale of the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred (1891)
• A Creature of the Night (1891)
• Monsieur Judas (1891)
• When I Lived in Bohemia (1891)
• Whom God Hath Joined (1891)
• The Black Carnation (1892)
• Aladdin in London (1892)
• The Fever of Life (1892)
• The Island of Fantasy (1892)
• The Chinese Jar (1893)
• The Harlequin Opal (1893)
• The Nameless City: A Romany Romance (1893)
• A Speck of the Motley (1893)
• The Lone Inn (1894)
• The Mystery of Landy Court (1894, aka From Thief to Detective)
• The Best of Her Sex (1894)
• The Gates of Dawn (1894)
• A Midnight Mystery (1894)
• The Crime of Liza Jane (1895)
• The White Prior (1895)
• The Expedition of Captain Flick (1896)
• The Carbuncle Clue (1896)
• A Marriage Mystery (1896)
• Tricked by a Tattoo (1896)
• Claude Duval of Ninety-Five (1897)
• The Tombstone Treasure (1897)
• The Clock Struck One (1898)
• The Rainbow Feather (1898)
• The Devil-Stick (1898, aka For the Defense)
• Lady Jezebel (1898)
• Under One Cover (1898)
• The Red-Headed Man (1899)
• The Silent House in Pimlico (1899) (transcription project)
• The Indian Bangle (1899)
• The Crimson Cryptogram (1900) (transcription project)
• Shylock of the River (1900)
• The Vanishing of Tera (1900)
• The Bishop's Secret (1900, aka Bishop Pendle)
• The Lady from Nowhere (1900)
• A Traitor in London (1900)
• The Millionaire Mystery (1901)
• The Crime of the Crystal (1901)
• The Golden Wang-Ho (1901, aka The Secret of the Chinese Jar)
• The Mother of Emeralds (1901)
• A Woman's Burden (1901)
• The Pagan's Cup (1902)
• The Turnpike House (1902)
• Woman: The Sphinx (1902)
• A Coin of Edward VII (1903)
• The Jade Eye (1903)
• The Silver Bullet (1903)
• The Yellow Holly (1903)
• The Guilty House (1903)
• The Miser's Will (1903)
• The Mandarin's Fan (1904)
• The Wheeling Light (1904)
• The Red Window (1904)
• The Lonely Church (1904)
• The White Room (1904)
• The Secret Passage (1905)
• Lady Jim of Curzon Street (1905)
• The Opal Serpent (1905)
• The Fatal Song (1905)
• The Scarlet Bat (1905)
• The Wooden Hand (1905)
• The Mystery of the Shadow (1906)
• The Black Patch (1906)
• Jonah's Luck (1906)
• The Purple Fern (1907)
• The Yellow Hunchback (1907)
• The Amethyst Cross (1908)
• Flies in the Web (1908)
• The Sealed Message (1908)
• The Green Mummy (1908)
• The Crowned Skull (1908)
• The Mystery of a Motor Cab (1908)
• The Sacred Herb (1908)
• The Devil's Ace (1909)
• The Solitary Farm (1909)
• The Top Dog (1909)
• The Disappearing Eye (1909)
• The Peacock of Jewels (1910)
• The Lonely Subaltern (1910)
• The Mikado Jewel (1910)
• The Spider (1910)
• The Steel Crown (1911)
• High Water Mark (1911)
• The Jew's House (1911)
• The Pink Shop (1911)
• The Rectory Governess (1911)
• The Mystery Queen (1912)
• The Blue Talisman (1912)
• Red Money (1912)
• Across the Footlights (1912)
• Mother Mandarin (1912)
• A Son of Perdition: An Occult Romance (1912)
• The Curse (1913)
• In Queer Street (1913)
• Seen in the Shadow (1913)
• The Thirteenth Guest (1913)
• The Lost Parchment (1914)
• The 4 PM Express (1914)
• Not Wanted (1914)
• Answered (1915)
• The Caretaker (1915)
• The Red Bicycle (1916)
• The Grey Doctor (1917)
• The Silent Signal (1917)
• Heart of Ice (1918)
• The Black Image (1918)
• Next Door (1918)
• Crazy-Quilt (1919)
• The Master-Mind (1919)
• The Dark Avenue (1920)
• The Other Person (1920)
• The Singing Head (1920)
• The Woman Who Held On (1920)
• Three (1921)
• The Unexpected (1921)
• A Trick of Time (1922)
• The Moth-Woman (1923)
• The Whispering Lane (1924)
• The Caravan Mystery (1926)
• The Last Straw (1932)

Collections of works

• The Piccadilly Puzzle (1889)
• Chronicles of Faeryland (1892)
• The Dwarf's Chamber: and Other Stories (1896)
• Hagar of the Pawn-Shop. The Gypsy Detective (1898)
• The Dancer in Red (1906)

Works from magazines

• "The Rainbow Camellia" (1894, Short Stories magazine)
• Hagar of the Pawnshop, (series: Canadian Magazine, 1897 Aug–1898)

Works about Hume

• "Hume, Fergus," in The Dictionary of Australasian Biography, by Philip Mennell, London: Hutchinson & Co. (1892)