The Green Mummy: The Annotated Edition — A Forgotten Classic of Detective Fiction, with Introduction & Notes

A Peruvian mummy, a strangled scholar, and a fortune in emeralds — a vintage murder mystery from the best-selling detective novelist you’ve never heard of.

When a rare green mummy vanishes and a man is found dead, an Egyptology-obsessed suitor must untangle a web of theft, obsession, and murder to win the woman he loves. Fergus Hume outsold Sherlock Holmes in his day — his Mystery of a Hansom Cab was the best-selling detective novel of the Victorian era — yet he is almost entirely forgotten today.

This Annotated Edition includes the complete 1908 novel, an original introduction on Hume — the most popular mystery writer of his age and how he vanished from view — and notes on the Egyptological craze that gripped the period.