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Item Details
| Title:
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THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER
OR THE MURDER AT ROAD HILL HOUSE |
| By: |
Kate Summerscale |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0747582157 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780747582151 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
7 April, 2008 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
In 1860, the Kent family wakes to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. |
| Synopsis: |
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. The murder provokes national hysteria. The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing - arouses fear and a kind of excitement. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment.A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery - a body; a detective; a country house steeped in secrets. In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Galaxy British Book Awards: Play.com Popular Non-Fiction Award 2009
Winner of Galaxy British Book Awards: Galaxy Book of the Year 2009
Winner of Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008
Short-listed for The South Bank Show Awards: Literature 2009
Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award:
Short-listed for Galaxy British Book Awards: Richard and Judy's Best Read
Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award:
Short-listed for CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2008 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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