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Colonial Melburnians were mad about sensational fiction - fiction full of thrills and scandal; divorce, bigamy, mistaken identity and murder. Martin and Mirmohamadi take us through the libraries, shops, tramways, theatres, back lanes and the drawing-rooms of Marvellous Melbourne, and show how the city was built on words as much as gold. They trace the passage of the most popular novel of the 19th century from England and through the cultural byways of Melbourne into Australian literature.