The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale.
Summerscale, Kate, 1965-
2008
HV7911.W426 S86 2008 (Mapit)
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Title The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale.
Author Summerscale, Kate, 1965-
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 9780802715357 (alk. paper)
0802715354 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Walker & Co., 2008.
Language English
Description xxiii, 360 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Call Number HV7911.W426 S86 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.152/3094231
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.
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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.

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