The Suspicions Of Mr. Whicher: A Murder And The Undoing Of A Great Victorian Detective
ISBN:
9781551928364 (1551928361)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Raincoast Books
Pages no: 360
Edition language: English
On a summer's morning in 1860, the Kent family awakes in their elegant Wiltshire home to a terrible discovery; their youngest son has been brutally murdered. When celebrated detective Jack Whicher is summoned from Scotland Yard he faces the unenviable task of identifying the killer - when the grievi...
I was intrigued by the blurb. Read the preview on Scribd, liked it enough to pay a credit for it, whizzed through the first third - very interesting! Ohhhh, was it the governess? The parents? The step-siblings? An outside party with a grudge against the unlikable master of the house?! - and then slo...
[Reseña Pendiente]Tengo pasión por los detectives (y todo lo que esté remotamente relacionado con ellos.) No me voy a curar nunca.
Reminded me a lot of The Maul and the Pear Tree except not as dry. Summerscale successfully integrates the story of the murder and its investigation with the history of detective fiction and the stories of the lives of the detective and family involved in the murder. I learned many interesting thing...
Reminded me a lot of The Maul and the Pear Tree except not as dry. Summerscale successfully integrates the story of the murder and its investigation with the history of detective fiction and the stories of the lives of the detective and family involved in the murder. I learned many interesting thing...
9 years ago
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