The suspicions of Mr. Whicher a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective
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 Whic...
| Main Author: | Summerscale, Kate, 1965- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Walker & Company : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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