@article{433924,
      recid = {433924},
      author = {Summerscale, Kate,},
      title = {The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the  undoing of a great Victorian detective /},
      publisher = {Walker & Co.,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xxiii, 360 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/433924},
}