Suspicions of Mr. Whicher : Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale

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Amy C. King (Jacket Design) New York, New York, U.S.A. 2008 Hard Cover Very Good in Very Good jacket 8vo-over 7"-9" tall. 360 pages with index; American edition, fourth printing; Includes black & white photographs; Illustrations in black & white; Color illustrations; Textblock is tight with no internal markings; Illustrated endpapers; Boards are black with the title in red; Unfaded pictorial dust-jacket with no tears and modest shelf and edge wear; We have placed the dust-jacket in a protective, removable clear mylar cover; ....(The relating of a murder committed in an English country house in 1860, and perhaps the most disturbing murder of its time. The search for the killer eventually threatened the career of one of the first detectives and inspired a "detective-fever" throughout England, which actually set the stage, or course of future detective fiction. For the whole country of England, the murder at Road Hill became like a kind of myth, a dark fable about a Victorian family and the dangers of detect

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2008 Hard Cover Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Very Good in Very Good jacket Book in excellent condition, dust jacket is slightly torn on front. "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. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher. 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 vindi

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2008 Hard Cover 1st Edition, 1st Printing As New in As New jacket Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective, hardback book and dust jacket in as new condition-clean and unmarked, number line is complete for first printing.

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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. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher. 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 Sergeant Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it author Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written.

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