Lucy Sussex, who has recently published
a book on Fergus Hume (author of
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, 1886) and was instrumental in recovering the work of early Australian mystery writer
Mary Fortune, has
discovered Fortune's grave. Although Fortune wrote more than 500 detective stories in her lifetime, she is not the first female detective-story writer; New England's
Harriet Prescott Spofford predates her with works such as "
In a Cellar" and "
Mr. Furbush."
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