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...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : |b a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / |c Kate Summerscale. |
| 250 | |a 1st U.S. ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Walker & Company : |b Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, |c 2008. | ||
| 300 | |a xxiii, 360 p., [16] p. of plates : |b ill., maps ; |c 22 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-347) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a To see what we have got to see -- The horror and amazement -- Shall not God search this out? -- A man of mystery -- Every clue seems cut off -- Something in her dark cheek -- Shape-shifters -- All tight shut up -- I know you -- To look at a star by glances -- What games goes on -- Detective-fever -- A general putting of this and that together by the wrong end -- Women! Hold your tongues! -- Like a crave -- Better she be mad -- My love turned -- Surely our real detective liveth -- Fairy-lands of fact -- The music of the scythe on the lawn outside. | |
| 520 | |a 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 Whicher of Scotland Yard. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. 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 today ... from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade.--From publisher description. | ||
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