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Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

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  • ENGLISH

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  • 9780747596486

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  • 129 mm

    Width
  • 198 mm

    Height
  • 295 gram

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 3 NOVEMBER 2008

    Publish Date
  • 27 mm

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    Description

    It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent familys elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder - the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day, arrives at Road to track down the killer, the m It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent familys elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find that their youngest...  Read More

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    Kate Summerscale

    Kate Summerscale (born in 1965) is an English writer and journalist.
    She won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2008 with The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House and won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1998 (and was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Awards for biography) for the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, fastest woman on water.
    As a journalist, she worked for The Independent and The Daily Telegraph and her articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. She stumbled on the story for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher in an 1890s anthology of unsolved crime stories and became so fascinated that she left her post as literary editor of The Daily Telegraph to pursue her investigations. She spent a year researching the book and another year writing it.
    She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize in 2001.

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