"The Secret of the Stradivarius" (1881), first published December 1881, "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine", Vol. Tales, 2 vols, London: Remington & Co, 1884 A Cardinal Sin, London: Remington, 5th ed., 1888, Bodleian Library. 
Living or Dead, New York: Henry Holt & Co 1886, Harvard. A Family Affair, 3 vols, London: Macmillan 1885, Bodleian Library. Dark Days, Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1884 California, Bodleian Library. Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1885 Bodleian Library Called Back, with Portrait and Sketch of the Life of the Author. Long after his death, one of his novels was filmed as The Last Rose of Summer (1920). Several other books of his appeared posthumously, notably A Family Affair, which was serialized in the English Illustrated Magazine in 1884–1885 and first published in volume form in 1885. Ordered to the Riviera for his health, Fargus caught typhoid fever, died in Monte Carlo and was buried in Nice. A stage version of it appeared in London in 1884, when Fargus published another story, Dark Days. One admirer of the book was the American poet Emily Dickinson. In 1883 Fargus published through Arrowsmith his first novella, Called Back, an early thriller that sold over 350,000 copies in four years. James Williams Arrowsmith, a Bristol printer and publisher, took an interest, and Fargus's first short story appeared in Arrowsmith's Miscellany. While a clerk, Fargus had written words for various songs, adopting the pen name Hugh Conway in memory of his training-ship days. One son, Archibald, became a first-class cricketer, scholar and clergyman. On 26 August 1871 married Amy Spark, daughter of a Bristol alderman. 
In deference to his father's wishes, however, he returned to Bristol, where he was articled to a firm of accountants until his father's death in 1868, when he took over the family auctioneering business. He had success with his fiction in the early 1880s.įargus was intended for his father's business, but at the age of 13 joined a Mersey school ship Conway lent by the Admiralty for training merchant navy officers. Hugh Conway, the pen name of Frederick John Fargus (26 December 1847 – ), was an English novelist born in Bristol, the son of an auctioneer. His best-known books at the time included Dark Days, Called Back and A Family Affair. British author Hugh Conway portrayed shortly before his death by Photographer van der Weyde in London.
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