The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Kate Summerscale
A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
KORTE INHOUD
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 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 Jona...
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 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 Jona...
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2008Uitgever: Walker & Company384 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0802715354ISBN-13: 9780802715357Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original hardcover, dust jacket, ilustrated with b/w photographs. [Auteur: Summerscale, Kate] [Pagina's: 360] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York : Walker & Company] [Jaar: 2008] [Titel: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective]
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2008, hardcover with dust jacket, good copy [Auteur: Summerscale, Kate] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Walker & Compagnt] [Jaar: 2008] [Titel: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher / A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective]
