![]() ![]() ![]() In 1860 England, three-year-old Saville Kent was found with his throat slit, in the outdoor privy of his family's Wiltshire country house, and it seemed that a member of the household had killed him (the governess came under immediate suspicion). In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: A Murder and the Undoing of the Great Victorian Detective, Kate Summerscale delves into a true crime story that's just as fascinating as many a modern mystery and whose lead investigator, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Jonathan Jack Whicher, was the precursor for a variety of fictional detectives (whose roots in the real detective the author discusses at length here, with references to the works of Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and Edgar Allan Poe, amongst others). Whicher: A Murder and the Undoing of the Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale ![]()
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