Miss Mephistopheles
eBook - ePub

Miss Mephistopheles

A Novel

  1. 186 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Miss Mephistopheles

A Novel

About this book

Miss Mephistopheles (1890) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, Miss Mephistopheles is a gripping novel with forbidden romance and a tightly wound mystery worthy of the best of Victorian fiction. A sequel to Madame Midas (1888), a story of fortune and loss set in the shadow of Australia's nineteenth century gold rush, Miss Mephistopheles examines the solidarity between women abused and abandoned by men.

Having lost her family fortune to a deceitful husband, Mrs. Villiers flees to Ballarat, where she turns her attention to managing her father's mine. Known to the local people as Madame Midas, she maintains a hard exterior in order not only to hide the truth of her past, but to guard herself from the cruelty of men. There, she rescues a young girl named Kitty Marchurst, a preacher's daughter misled by a wicked ex-convict. Raising her daughter Meg, Marchurst becomes a star in the Melbourne burlesque scene, acquiring wealth and fame beyond her wildest dreams. When her beloved diamonds are stolen, however, her world—and the city itself—threaten to come crashing down. Enmeshed in this mystery are an American insurance agent and Mrs. Villiers' estranged husband, shadowy figures who move in and out of respectable society looking for vulnerable marks. Miss Mephistopheles is a tale of violence and greed set in a country built on wealth gathered too quickly to last.

This edition of Fergus Hume's Miss Mephistopheles is a classic of Australian mystery and detective fiction reimagined for modern readers.

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Information

Publisher
Mint Editions
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781513278353
eBook ISBN
9781513278810
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Crime & Mystery Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. I. Faces in the Fire
  6. II. Keith meets with an Adventure
  7. III. Prince Carnival
  8. IV. Lazarus
  9. V. A Woman’s Appeal
  10. VI. The Annoyance of Hiram J. Fenton
  11. VII. Mirth and Laughter
  12. VIII. A Mysterious Affair
  13. IX. An Unknown Benefactor
  14. X. Naball makes a Discovery
  15. XI. What Naball overheard
  16. XII. Naball tells a Story
  17. XIII. The Gossip of Clubs
  18. XIV. A Struggle for Fame
  19. XV. The Russell Street Crime
  20. XVI. The Inquest
  21. XVII. A Council of Three
  22. XVIII. Circumstantial Evidence
  23. XIX. A Lovers’ Meeting
  24. XX. The Rivals
  25. XXI. A First Night at the Bon-Bon
  26. XXII. Eugénie v. Naball
  27. XXIII. The Cypher
  28. XXIV. What Kitty knew
  29. XXV. The Evidence of a Bank-Note
  30. XXVI. On the Track
  31. XXVII. Meg proves Useful
  32. XXVIII. Malton makes a Discovery
  33. XXIX. Light at Last
  34. XXX. Exit Kitty Marchurst
  35. A Note About the Author
  36. A Note from the Publisher