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

35 reviews
Kate Summerscale

Walker & Company, 2008

The Dark Side Brought to Light
This is a fascinating story on so many levels: a study of a family's dark secrets, brought to light by a determined detective; the unraveling of clues leading to the solving of a grisly murder; a study of Victorian society, mores, and family life; and a fascinating character study not only of the family involved in the murder, but also of the detective who doggedly sought to solve the crime. ...

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Kate Summerscale

HighBridge Company, 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. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this ...

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Or the Murder at Road Hill House
Kate Summerscale

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008

The Queen of Whale Cay

11 reviews
Kate Summerscale

Viking Adult, 1998

AMAZING, EXTRAORDINARY AND FASCINATING
Nonconformist is an understatement. Eccentric isn't outre enough. Over-the-top words do not adequately describe Marion "Joe" Carstairs. She was a breakneck ambulance driver in World War I France, a world record-holding speedboat racer, the supreme ruler of her own Bahamian island, and pal to notables such as the Duchess of Windsor, Tallulah Bankhead, and Marlene Dietrich. Assigned to write ...