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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Adapted from The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886) by Fergus Hume
Status
Ongoing
Length
6 chapters so far · 5 scenes
Rating
MatureAdult themes, no explicit content

You are Detective Gorby, called out near two in the morning when a hansom brings a dead passenger into the St Kilda station, chloroformed by a stranger the driver watched vanish into the dark.

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About this story

Working the case alongside Detective Kilsip, you build it from a monogrammed handkerchief, a stolen light coat, and a diamond ring worn on the wrong finger, toward a name, Brian Fitzgerald, that Kilsip is not yet willing to put on a warrant.

How it opens

Near two in the morning, a hansom rattled into the station yard and stopped crookedly.

Malcolm RoystonSergeant, my passenger will not wake, and another gentleman left him on the road.

You reached the cab while the station sergeant held back everyone except the doctor.

Do not move the body until the doctor sees every fold and fastening.

Choose

Begin where the first man hailed you and name every street in order.

Describe the living passenger before telling me what he said.

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