Suspicions of Mr. Whicher A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Name: Suspicions of Mr. Whicher A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
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ISBN: 9780802717429

ISBN-10: 080271742X

ISBN-13: 9780802717429

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Authors: Kate Summerscale

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The national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. T he 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. I nspector Jonathan Whicher's real legacy, however, lives on in fiction: the tough, quirky, all-knowing and all-seeing detective that we know and love today...from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins'sThe Moonstoneto Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade.The Suspicions of Mr. Whicherreads like the best of Victorian thrillers, and has been nominated for the Samuel Johnson…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 2/24/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.44" wide x 8.31" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Kate Summerscale was born in 1965. She is the author of the bestsellingThe Queen of Whale Cay, which won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in London with her five-year-old son.



Introduction


Floorplan of Road Hill House


Family Tree


List of Characters


A Note on Money


Prologue



The Death



To See What We Have Got to See



The Horror and Amazement



Shall Not God Search This Out?



The Detective



A Man of Mystery



Every Clue Seems Cut Off



Something in Her Dark Cheek



Shape-Shifters



All Tight Shut Up



I Know You



To Look at a Star by Glances



What Games Goes On



Detective-Fever



A General Putting of This and That Together by the Wrong End



Women! Hold Your Tongues!



The Unravelling



Like a Crave



Better She Be Mad



My Love Turned



Surely Our Real Detective Liveth



Fairy-Lands of Fact



The Music of the Scythe on the Lawn Outside


Afterword


Postscript


Notes


List of Illustrations


Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Index