The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale

About this title Audio Format 9. Cuff in Wilkie Collinss The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammetts Sam Spade. Whicher is a provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it author Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written. 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 todayfrom the cryptic Sgt. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievablethat someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. This is the story of a murder committed in an English country house in 1860, perhaps the most disturbing murder of its time. 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.Īt 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 crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher. Urn:oclc:756929835 Republisher_date 20120427004419 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120426013405 Scanner June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit.

OL18180087W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.29 Pages 422 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0802715354 When celebrated detective Jack Whicher is summoned from Scotland Yard he faces the unenviable task of identifying the killer when the grieving family are the suspects.

Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:23:57 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA150901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Date-raw FebruDonorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition Pbk. On a summers morning in 1860, the Kent family awakes in their elegant Wiltshire home to a terrible discovery their youngest son has been brutally murdered.

The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale