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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House (Paperback)
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House (Paperback)

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Paperback 400 Pages / Published: 05/01/2009
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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.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780747596486
Number of pages: 400
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 25 mm

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“Fascinating.”

This was clearly very well researched and although clearly billed as a fictional account of true events it reads like an expose of Victorian life and its slightly hypocritical desire for salacious news and the... More

Paperback edition
18th August 2012
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“Interesting but very 'wordy'!”

Thought this was interesting but too much stuff and records that had nothing to do with the story. However my husband loved it!

Paperback edition
19th October 2009
Helpful? Upvote 60

“Not what I expected”

I was not enamoured as it was not what I had hoped for. I felt it was slightly disjointed. Interesting though.

Paperback edition
6th April 2011
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