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The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective
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Published
New York : Walker & Co., 2008.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Status
Rapid City Public Library - True Crime - Adult
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographies.
Case studies.
Confession (Law) -- Great Britain.
Criminal investigation -- Case studies.
Detectives -- England -- London -- Biography.
Forensic sciences -- History.
Murder -- England -- Wiltshire -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Murder -- Investigation -- Great Britain.
Whicher, Jonathan.
Case studies.
Confession (Law) -- Great Britain.
Criminal investigation -- Case studies.
Detectives -- England -- London -- Biography.
Forensic sciences -- History.
Murder -- England -- Wiltshire -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Murder -- Investigation -- Great Britain.
Whicher, Jonathan.
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More Details
Published
New York : Walker & Co., 2008.
Format
Book
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
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, Jonathan Whicher of Scotland Yard. 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 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 The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade.--From publisher description.
Awards
Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, 2008.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Summerscale, K. (2008). The suspicions of Mr. Whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective (1st U.S. ed.). Walker & Co..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Summerscale, Kate, 1965-. 2008. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective. Walker & Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Summerscale, Kate, 1965-. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective Walker & Co, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Summerscale, Kate. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective 1st U.S. ed., Walker & Co., 2008.
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