![]() ![]() Largely all advertising rather questionable cures to various ailments, including: Dr J. This edition with several advertisements, 4 pages within, one to verso of front cover, and one on the back cover. A crime has been committed by an unknown assassin, within a short distance of the principal street of this great city, and is surrounded by an impenetrable mystery.” “Truth is said to be stranger than fiction. First published in Melbourne in 1886 and then in Britain the following year, it was an astronomical success, outselling Conan-Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novel, and has been called Australia’s first international bestseller. N.d.Ī sensational novel set in Melbourne about a homicide where a corpse is discovered in a horse-drawn hansom cab. ![]() ![]() London, The Hansom Cab Publishing Company. original black and white pictorial wrappers. First printing in the UK (preceding the American edition of 1888). ‘One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Thousand’. ![]()
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