01467cam a2200289 4500 1164167699 TxAuBib 20130401120000.0 090326s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780802717429 pbk. 080271742X pbk. (OCoLC)317137550 BKL BKL TnLvILS TxAuBib Summerscale, Kate, 1965- The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale. Pbk ed. New York : Walker & Company, 2009. xxv, 372 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. "First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury in 2008"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-359) and index. The national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land. 20130401. Whicher, Jonathan. Detectives England London Biography. Murder England Wiltshire History 19th century Case studies. TXKIP