A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list 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. 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9781408891407
eBay Product ID (ePID)
238772035
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
Author
Kate Summerscale
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
True Crime
Publication Year
2017
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
418g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Kate Summerscale
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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