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Summerscale, Kate, 1965-
Subjects
Whicher, Jonathan.
Detectives -- England -- London -- Biography.
Murder -- England -- Wiltshire -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
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The suspicions of Mr...
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The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale.
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Summerscale, Kate, 1965-
New York : Walker & Company : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects
Whicher, Jonathan.
Detectives -- England -- London -- Biography.
Murder -- England -- Wiltshire -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008000247-b.html
Electronic Resource
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008000247-d.html
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008000247-s.html
ISBN:
9780802715357 (alk. paper)
0802715354 (alk. paper)
Description:
xxiii, 360 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Contents:
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.
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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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