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Sisters in Crime: Lucy Sussex

Australian author Lucy Sussex who speaks on her latest book Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab at St Kilda in 2015.
Australian author Lucy Sussex who speaks on her latest book Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab at St Kilda in 2015.

Fiction and crime writer Lucy Sussex talks to Carmel Shute, Sisters in Crime National Co-convenor and historian about how The Mystery of the Hansom Cab (1886) became the fastest-selling detective novel of the 1800s, and Australia’s first literary blockbuster. They’ll explore how the book is intimately connected to St Kilda, and a showreel of St Kilda in the 1880s, the heyday of “Marvellous Melbourne” will be shown.

Type of Event: Books and ideas

Venue: St Kilda Library
150 Carlisle St
St Kilda VIC 3182

Date: 19 July 2015

Price: free

Website: St Kilda Library

Telephone: (03) 9209 6655

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