The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective… by Kate Summerscale
A mesmerizing portrait of one of England’s first detectives and the gruesome murder investigation that nearly destroyed him. In 1860, three-year-old Saville Kent was found murdered in the outdoor privy of his family’s country estate. Local police scrambled for clues, but to no avail.
Scotland Yard Det.-Insp. Jonathan Jack Whicher was called in and immediately suspected the unthinkable: someone in the Kent family killed Saville. Theories abounded as everyone from the nursemaid to Saville’s father became a suspect. Five years later, the killer came forward with a shocking account of the crime, leading to a sensational trial. Whicher is a fascinating hero, and readers will delight in following every lurid twist and turn in his investigation.
US $10 Amazon. Publisher: Walker & Company; Reprint edition (February 17, 2009).
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