Miss Mephistopheles

Miss Mephistopheles is the final volume in Fergus Hume's Melbourne Trilogy. Kittly Marchurst has become a star of musical theater. She is demanding and devoted to wealthy men, but loves her child Meg above all else. Kitty's diamonds are stolen after which a Jewish moneylender is found murdered. And so the fun begins!

Fergusson Wright Hume (8 July 1859 12 July 1932), known as Fergus Hume, was a prolific English novelist. Hume was born in England, the second son of James Hume. When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, where he was educated at Otago Boys' High School and studied law at the University of Otago. He was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885. Shortly after graduation Hume relocated to Melbourne, Australia, where he obtained a job as a barristers' clerk. He began writing plays, but found it impossible to persuade the managers of Melbourne theatres to accept or even to read them.

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