In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life. (Named one of Time magazines Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year) In 1860 Britain. Everyone in the book group found this book hard to read, we felt that this. A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery - a body a detective a country house steeped in secrets. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale, and Christian Rodska. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment. The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing - arouses fear and a kind of excitement. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. With no material evidence and only an inept local police force to help, he faces the unenviable task of solving a case in. One night, the 3-year-old son of Samuel Kent, owner of Road Hill. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. Inspector Jack Whicher is part of the newly formed Scotland Yard detective department and travels to Rode, Wiltshire, to investigate a murder at a country house. Whicher is at its essence a non-fiction true crime novel about the 1860 Road Hill murder case. At some point after midnight a dog barks. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Whicher is not just a dark, vicious true-crime story it is the story of the birth of forensic science, founded on the. The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved itIt is a summer's night in 1860.

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