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

Author Kate Summerscale

Format Hardcover

Publisher Walker Books

Category True Crime - General

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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 ... from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade.--From publisher description.

Authors

Kate Summerscale

Additional Info

  • Release Date: 2008-04-15
  • Publisher: Walker Books
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780802715357

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