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

By Kate Summerscale

Book information

Publisher
Walker & Company
Year
2009
ISBN
080271742X, 9780802717429
Google Books ID
mbkU8cPU4rwC
Open Library ID
OL24084948M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1176591 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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’s The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher reads like the best of Victorian thrillers, and has been nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize in London.

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