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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (Paperback, 2011)

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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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9781408824528
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99909739

Product Key Features

Book Title
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Author
Kate Summerscale
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Local History, True Crime
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
400 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
309g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Kate Summerscale
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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