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...
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...
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...
This is less the story of a murder than it is an examination of the public's relationship with detective stories both fictional and non. It's well researched, and pretty interesting if you're into that sort of thing, which I am.
The subtitle to this is ‘A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective’ which is a fairly melodramatic summing up. All murder is shocking, in its own way, surely? As for the undoing of the great Victorian detective, he failed to get a conviction, which is hardly the world’s worst ...
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