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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Door Kate Summerscale

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#292161
Titel
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Auteur
Summerscale, Kate
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York : Walker & Company
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
0802715354
ISBN13
9780802715357
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original hardcover, dust jacket, ilustrated with b/w photographs.
Samenvatting


The dramatic story of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.

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.

At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher.

Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable? that someone within the family was r... (Lees verder)esponsible 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.

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written.
Pagina's
360
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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