The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction 2008 and the Galaxy Book of the Year 2009
(Sprache: Englisch)
The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it
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The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Kate Summerscale
Summerscale, KateKate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Kate Summerscale has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in north London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kate Summerscale
- 2008, Repr., 384 Seiten, Maße: 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 074759922X
- ISBN-13: 9780747599227
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.08.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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'It is a beautiful piece, written with great lucidity and respect for the reader, and with immaculate restraint. A classic, to my mind, of the finest documentary writing.' John Le Carre
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