In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment.A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery - a body a detective a country house steeped in secrets. The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing - arouses fear and a kind of excitement. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. This riveting book covers the gruesome discovery of a murder in a Georgian house in the sleepy village of Road in Wiltshire. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. At some point after midnight a dog barks.The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet.
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