Madame Midas

Fergus Hume ; with an introduction by Simon Caterson
Melbourne : Text Publishing, 1999

ISBN: 1876485132

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Book description
Like Midas, the Greek King, she turned everything she touched into gold ... she would give all her wealth could she but once more regain that trust in human nature which has been so cruelly betrayed ...'

When the irresistibly attractive French convict Gaston Vandeloup escapes to the goldfields of Ballarat, he sets out to meet the remarkable Madame Midas. Charming, intelligent and forthright, she finds her fortune in Ballarat's fabulous mines and returns to marvellous Melbourne where she lives in magnificent style. But, in that city of con men and opportunists, her wealth makes her prey to deceit and crime, destined to end in murder ...

First published in 1888, Madame Midas is the bestselling companion-piece to Fergus Hume's phenomenally successful The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. Madame Midas herself is based on Alice Cornwell, a women whose life was as strange as the fiction she inspired. In this thrilling mystery, introduced here by Simon Caterson, Hume unforgettably dramatised the story of an enigmatic women in a society enslaved by wealth.

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