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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (Paperback, 2009)

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Title: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher. Format: Paperback. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB. Item Height: 198mm. EAN: 9780747596486. Language: English. ISBN-10: 0747596484. Release Date: 05/01/2009.

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It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. The murder provokes national hysteria. The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing - arouses fear and a kind of excitement. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment. A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery - a body; a detective; a country house steeped in secrets. In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9780747596486
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Book Title
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House
Author
Kate Summerscale
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Local History, True Crime
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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198mm
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129mm

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Kate Summerscale
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United Kingdom

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5 out of 5 stars
by lebonpeter31 Mar, 2011
An excellent read
I heard this book mentioned as a 'book club' choice on the radio (The Archers) and this prompted me to buy it as I'd not heard of it before. It is a true detective story from 1860, very well researched, but written so well that it doesn't lose the reader in the mundane. It kept me absorbed from beginning to end and was a fascinating insight into the Victorian era and the beginning of Detective work and the fiction that accompanied it.
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by abacus198823 May, 2011
Interesting
A bit of a disappointing book sounded quite promising but too much airy-fairyness about it.Didn't get too far into it before I called it a day.

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