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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House

Kate Summerscale

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#643 of 3,809 books · #238 in History

Won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2008).

In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land, Jonathan Whicher of Scotland Yard. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. Though he would be vindicated five years later, the real legacy of Jonathan Whicher lives on in fiction: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love today.

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Publisher
A&C Black
ISBN-13
9780747582151
Genre
History
Topics
Victorian murder investigationBirth of detective policingTrue crime

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