- Follow-up (00:08)
- Listening to our own episodes (00:25)
- Getting our facts wrong (00:54)
- Perry’s views on diversity in the SF field (03:09)
- Do the awards truly indicate quality? (00:43)
- Other awards in the field (01:16)
- Interview with Dr. Lucy Sussex (46:32)
- Discovering Mary Fortune (01:49)
- Ellen Davitt (00:12)
- ‘Force and Fraud‘ – Australia’s first murder mystery (01:37)
- Mary Fortune’s reputation (00:51)
- Anticipates the police procedural (00:22)
- Police looked down on (01:32)
- French writer Émile Gaboriau (00:47)
- Australian interest in true crime (01:04)
- Wilkie Collins and ‘The Moonstone‘ (00:56)
- Fascination with Australian settings (00:38)
- Mary Braddon (01:03)
- Ellen Wood (01:08)
- Marcus Clarke and ‘His Natural Life‘ (01:27)
- ‘The Mystery of a Hansom Cab‘ (00:29)
- ‘Blockbuster‘ (00:13)
- Fergus Hume (00:27)
- Melbourne the centre of theatre (01:07)
- Nailed colonial Victoria (01:31)
- Unusual structure of the novel (01:21)
- Victoria’s Chinese detective (00:26)
- Concept of The Great Detective (01:53)
- Crime novels as commentary on society (00:34)
- Marvellous Melbourne – only for some (00:20)
- ‘Blockbuster’ story of a publishing phenomenon (00:52)
- Frederick Trischler (01:05)
- Print run of 5,000 (00:52)
- Hume sells copyright for £50 (01:25)
- Kicks off interest in crime fiction (00:50)
- Interest in Australia (01:15)
- Pirated in the United States (00:49)
- Literature a dicey business (00:17)
- Theatrical versions (00:53)
- Hume goes to England (01:05)
- Was Hume gay? (01:19)
- Oscar Wilde (00:50)
- Blackmail? (04:48)
- Theosophy (01:05)
- Spiritualism – Doyle, Houdini (00:42)
- Hume’s connections in England (00:58)
- Haddon Chambers (00:41)
- Lucy’s further research (01:17)
- Anne Perry (01:35)
- Further research (00:50)
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Image: based on the cover of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume.