The Adventure of the Hansom Cab

The Adventure of the Hansom Cab

Infobox short story |
name = The Adventure of the Hansom Cab
title_orig =
translator =
author = Robert Louis Stevenson
country = flagicon|Scotland Scotland
language = English
series = The Suicide Club
genre = Detective fiction short story
published_in = London Magazine
publication_type =
publisher =
media_type = Print (Periodical)
pub_date = 1878
english_pub_date =
preceded_by = Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk
followed_by =

"The Adventure of the Hansom Cab" is the third and final story in Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Suicide Club" cycle. First published in London Magazine in 1878 it was republished in the first volume of The New Arabian Nights.

Plot introduction

This is a 19th century detective fiction short story set in the gas-lit of streets of Victorian era London where retired British soldier Lieutenant Brackenbury Rich looks for adventure.

Publication history

*1878, UK, London Magazine, Pub date Jun-Oct 1878, Periodical
*1882, UK, Chatto & Windus, Pub date 1882, Hardback
*1985, UK, Puffin ISBN 0-14-036764-0, Pub date Aug 1997, Paperback
*1991, USA, Carroll & Graf ISBN 0-88184-741-0, Pub date Sep 1991, Hardback
*2000, USA, Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-486-41416-7, Pub date 2000, Paperback


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