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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

Or, The murder at Road Hill House

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It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent family's elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder - the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day, arrives at Road to track down the killer, the murder provokes national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealously, loneliness and loathing.

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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Kate Summerscale

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2008
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Subtitle
Or, The murder at Road Hill House
Language
English
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Released
2008
Format
Paperback
ISBN10
0747596484
ISBN13
9780747596486
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Original title
The suspicions of Mr Whicher or the murder at Road Hill House
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It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent family's elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder - the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day, arrives at Road to track down the killer, the murder provokes national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealously, loneliness and loathing.