Authors in Crime

Hume, F. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. London: C. Arthur Pearson, [1908]

Hume, F. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. London: C. Arthur Pearson, [1908]
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Hume, F. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. London: Breese Books, 1999

Hume, F. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. London: Breese Books, 1999
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Hume, F. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. London: Jarrods, [1925]

Hume, F. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. London: Jarrods, [1925]
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Rock, G. By Passion Driven. Dunedin: J. Wilkie & Co., 1888

Also employed by Sievwright and Stout prior to writing his first novel was James Alexander Barr who used the pseudonym Gilbert Rock to publish By Passion Driven: The Story of a Wasted Life, set in Dunedin itself. Although he published five novels under a variety of pseudonyms, it did nothing to alleviate the debt of £10,000 he had acquired, likely as property deals that had gone wrong. He fled Dunedin leaving behind his debt and his family, although his family did join him at a later date in England.

Rock, G. By Passion Driven. Dunedin: J. Wilkie & Co., 1888
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