Mystery of a Handsom Cab vs The clue of the new pin: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Mystery of a Handsom Cab Mystery of a Handsom Cab Fergus Hume · 1887 238 pages · ≈ 4 h 24 m · Demanding
“Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and certainly the extraordinary murder which took place in Melbourne on Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, goes a long way towards verifying this saying.”

254 pages; 22 cm

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Cover of The clue of the new pin The clue of the new pin Edgar Wallace · 1923 ★★★★☆ 3.6 214 pages · ≈ 3 h 58 m · Challenging

Tab Holland, newspaper reporter and a friend of a local police investigator, is surprised to discover that his roommate’s uncle Jesse Transmere, a wealthy miser, has been found murdered in a cellar vault locked from the…

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Mystery of a Handsom CabThe clue of the new pin
Goodreads — 3.6 (241)

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Mystery of a Handsom CabThe clue of the new pin
Ratings — 241
Editions 46 56
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read — 141
Reading it now — 14
Written reviews — 22
Wikipedia attention — 5
Pages 238 214

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