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The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale.
Van Pelt Library HV7911.W426 S86 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Summerscale, Kate, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whicher, Jonathan.
- Detectives--England--London--Biography.
- Detectives.
- Murder.
- History.
- England--London.
- England--Wiltshire.
- Murder--England--Wiltshire--History--19th century--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walker & Company : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-347) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802715357
- 0802715354
- OCLC:
- 191090228
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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