The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale.
2008
KD7964 .S86 2008 (Mapit)
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Author
Title
The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Imprint
New York : Walker & Co., 2008.
Description
xxiii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Formatted Contents Note
To see what we have got to see
The horror and amazement
Shall not God find 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.
The horror and amazement
Shall not God find 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.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KD7964 .S86 2008
Language
English
ISBN
9780802715357 alkaline paper
0802715354 alkaline paper
9781607512301
1607512300
0802715354 alkaline paper
9781607512301
1607512300
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