The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective |
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 | If you are fascinated by the hypocrisy of the Victorians, you'll love this book. If you want to read a great murder mystery, you should probably search out a work of fiction instead.
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher has a wide charter: Tell the story of the murder of three-year-old Saville Kent in his English country home, describe the police investigations, relate the public reaction to the murder and investigations, detail what happened to the characters, help us understand our psychological need to read detective fiction, and provide new insight into the seeds of the crime.
Although the book claims to give us a fiction-like description of the murder and its investigation, Ms. Summerscale's writing isn't quite in the style: She's clearly a non-fiction writer. She's also not very careful of the facts: There's a glaring example in her "A Note on Money" that precedes the Prologue. In the first paragraph she tells us a pound is worth $130 today and in the second paragraph she tells us ... read more.
Written by Kate Summerscale.
Published 15 April 2008.
Published by Walker & Company.
rrp £16.25.
384 pages Hardcover.
ISBN: 0802715354
ISBN-13: 9780802715357 | |
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