TY - BOOK AB - 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. AU - Summerscale, Kate, CN - HV7911.W426 CN - HV7911.W426 CY - New York : DA - 2008. ET - 1st U.S. ed. ID - 433924 KW - Detectives KW - Murder LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip088/2008000247.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008000247-b.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008000247-d.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008000247-s.html N2 - 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. PB - Walker & Co., PP - New York : PY - 2008. SN - 9780802715357 (alk. paper) SN - 0802715354 (alk. paper) T1 - The suspicions of Mr. Whicher :a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / TI - The suspicions of Mr. Whicher :a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip088/2008000247.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008000247-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008000247-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008000247-s.html ER -