The Mystery of a Hansom Cab w/Direct link technology (A Classic Mystery Novel)

WHEN Fergus Hume's overweight and overly methodical detective, Gorby, in The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, visits the home of society bachelor Brian Fitzgerald to question his housekeeper, Mrs Sampson, regarding 'Mr Fitzgerald's habits,' she is immediately suspicious (Hume 68). But far from imagining that Gorby is a private detective seeking to establish a charge of murder against her employer, she accuses him of being a journalist. Gorby's methods of soliciting information, his purposeful demeanour, and his e...