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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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'Summerscale has constructed nothing less than a masterpiece. My shelves are stacked with books about crime, but none more satisfying than this.' -- Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
A tour de force. It sweeps us irresistibly into the investigation, turning us into armchair detectives... Under the spell of [her] scrupulous intelligence and mesmerizing research' -- The Daily Mail
Summerscale has done excellent research in ferreting out the details of this curious case . . . a remarkable achievement.' -- The Sunday Times
Summerscale has produced not only a dazzling non-fiction thriller, but also an acute work of literary and social history.' -- The Daily Express
Very simply, this is a fantastic book, fantastically written and it's a book of deep moral purpose.
-- Ekow Eshun, Newsnight Review
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A tour de force. It sweeps us irresistibly into the investigation, turning us into armchair detectives... Under the spell of [her] scrupulous intelligence and mesmerizing research' -- The Daily Mail
Summerscale has done excellent research in ferreting out the details of this curious case . . . a remarkable achievement.' -- The Sunday Times
Summerscale has produced not only a dazzling non-fiction thriller, but also an acute work of literary and social history.' -- The Daily Express
Very simply, this is a fantastic book, fantastically written and it's a book of deep moral purpose.
-- Ekow Eshun, Newsnight Review
The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 074759922X
- ISBN 13 9780747599227
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