The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective /

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 Whic...

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Main Author: Summerscale, Kate, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Walker & Company : 2008.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
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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.
Physical Description:xxiii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-347) and index.
ISBN:9780802715357 (alk. paper)
0802715354 (alk. paper)