{"product_id":"the-suspicions-of-mr-whicher-a-shocking-murder-and-the-undoing-of-a-great-victorian-detective-paperback","title":"The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKate Summerscale\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhicher 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/i\u003e to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Suspicions of Mr. Whicher\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate Summerscale is the former literary editor for the \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eThe Queen of Whale Cay\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Summerscale lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 24, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757522845984,"sku":"9780802717429","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/33a5b1cffb896b21304a0e7736e637fa.webp?v=1780104954","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-suspicions-of-mr-whicher-a-shocking-murder-and-the-undoing-of-a-great-victorian-detective-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}