Red Money Fergus Hume 9781523681549 Books
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Fergusson Wright Hume, known as Fergus Hume (8 July 1859 – 12 July 1932) was a prolific English novelist. Finding that the novels of Émile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, he obtained and read a set of them and determined to write a novel of a similar kind. The result was the self-published novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), which became a great success. Hume based his descriptions of poor urban life on his knowledge of Little Bourke Street. He sold the English and United States rights to the novel for 50 pounds, and thus derived little benefit from its success. It eventually became the best selling mystery novel of the Victorian era, author John Sutherland terming it the "most sensationally popular crime and detective novel of the century". This novel inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the character Sherlock Holmes. Doyle remarked, "Hansom Cab was a slight tale, mostly sold by 'puffing'." After the success of his first novel and the publication of another, Professor Brankel's Secret (c.1886), Hume returned to England in 1888. He resided in London for few years and then he moved to the Essex countryside where he lived in Thundersley for 30 years, eventually producing more than 100 novels and short stories. He continued to be anxious for success as a dramatist, and at one time Henry Irving was favourably considering one of his plays, but he died before it could be produced.
Red Money Fergus Hume 9781523681549 Books
This story begins at the breakfast table in “The Manor”, home to Lord and Lady Garvington, who are hosting a shooting party. There is a large camp of gypsies in Abbot’s Wood, which is part of Garvington’s property, and he means to drive them off. He accuses them of burglaries and threatens to shoot anyone who tries to enter the house at night. Four of the main characters are described here. It is a very good way of finding out the essences of these characters and if there is no further description, the reader already knows who these four are and what sort of people they are. The descriptions are cruelly penetrating and accurately portray the characters. Lord Freddy Garvington, impoverished, a fat, round little glutton who is eating his way through what money the Estate (and his wealthy brother-in-law) can provide him with. Lady Jane Garvington, a lean, limp, untidy, anxious woman who has to spend her life finding new delicacies for her husband to eat. Miss Clara Greeby, a masculine sort of woman, built on Amazonian lines and the hearty kind of person who soon wears out lesser mortals. Lady Agnes Pine, tall, slim, very charming, but quite self-contained and quiet. Sir Hubert Pine is absent on a business trip to Paris.From there, the story moves to the Abbot’s Wood Cottage as Clara Greeby goes to visit Noel Lambert, a painter living in the cottage, and heir to Lord Garvington. Lambert loves Lady Agnes Pine, sister of Lord Garvington, and wife of Sir Hubert Pine, and she loves Lambert, but as honourable people, they do not indulge in anything of an illicit nature. Clara Greeby loves Lambert and so does Chaldea, a Romany, but, as is the case with Clara, her love is not reciprocated. Kara, a Romany dwarf, nurses a jealous and unrequited love for Chaldea. Sir Hubert Pine has a strong, jealous love for his wife, which he knows is not returned as Lady Agnes told him so before they married, but she is loyal to him and respects him. With all this tangled emotion sizzling away, something has to give way, and it does, ending in murder. The police spend weeks on the case, but can find no suspects nor any clues. The inquest is held and the verdict is the old “murder by person or persons unknown”. The police keep investigating for longer, but eventually have to shelve the case for lack of anything to go on. It is a newspaper sensation (with journalistic embellishment), but that dies out after a while for lack of any fuel, and other stories take its place in the headlines.
This is a very tangled tale encompassing love, money, honour, lies, loyalty, hatred, deception, jealousy, and murder.
The values of some of the characters may seem obsolete in this day and age, but truly, should virtues such as fidelity, honour, and truthfulness ever become obsolete? For a book written in 1911 the writing doesn’t really have an old-fashioned feel to it, and although more verbose than many modern books are, in my view this doesn’t detract from the story at all. Hume uses language well and there are some delightfully incisive epigrams to be found.
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Red Money Fergus Hume 9781523681549 Books Reviews
Fergus Hume really knew how to put together a great yarn and with this book he has done it again, with gypsies and murder and with so many suspects it will take you until the end to figure it out.
This story begins at the breakfast table in “The Manor”, home to Lord and Lady Garvington, who are hosting a shooting party. There is a large camp of gypsies in Abbot’s Wood, which is part of Garvington’s property, and he means to drive them off. He accuses them of burglaries and threatens to shoot anyone who tries to enter the house at night. Four of the main characters are described here. It is a very good way of finding out the essences of these characters and if there is no further description, the reader already knows who these four are and what sort of people they are. The descriptions are cruelly penetrating and accurately portray the characters. Lord Freddy Garvington, impoverished, a fat, round little glutton who is eating his way through what money the Estate (and his wealthy brother-in-law) can provide him with. Lady Jane Garvington, a lean, limp, untidy, anxious woman who has to spend her life finding new delicacies for her husband to eat. Miss Clara Greeby, a masculine sort of woman, built on ian lines and the hearty kind of person who soon wears out lesser mortals. Lady Agnes Pine, tall, slim, very charming, but quite self-contained and quiet. Sir Hubert Pine is absent on a business trip to Paris.
From there, the story moves to the Abbot’s Wood Cottage as Clara Greeby goes to visit Noel Lambert, a painter living in the cottage, and heir to Lord Garvington. Lambert loves Lady Agnes Pine, sister of Lord Garvington, and wife of Sir Hubert Pine, and she loves Lambert, but as honourable people, they do not indulge in anything of an illicit nature. Clara Greeby loves Lambert and so does Chaldea, a Romany, but, as is the case with Clara, her love is not reciprocated. Kara, a Romany dwarf, nurses a jealous and unrequited love for Chaldea. Sir Hubert Pine has a strong, jealous love for his wife, which he knows is not returned as Lady Agnes told him so before they married, but she is loyal to him and respects him. With all this tangled emotion sizzling away, something has to give way, and it does, ending in murder. The police spend weeks on the case, but can find no suspects nor any clues. The inquest is held and the verdict is the old “murder by person or persons unknown”. The police keep investigating for longer, but eventually have to shelve the case for lack of anything to go on. It is a newspaper sensation (with journalistic embellishment), but that dies out after a while for lack of any fuel, and other stories take its place in the headlines.
This is a very tangled tale encompassing love, money, honour, lies, loyalty, hatred, deception, jealousy, and murder.
The values of some of the characters may seem obsolete in this day and age, but truly, should virtues such as fidelity, honour, and truthfulness ever become obsolete? For a book written in 1911 the writing doesn’t really have an old-fashioned feel to it, and although more verbose than many modern books are, in my view this doesn’t detract from the story at all. Hume uses language well and there are some delightfully incisive epigrams to be found.
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