by Kate Summerscale · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467242775
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«El asesinato de Road Hill» is the true crime work by Kate Summerscale, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (315 pages, in Spanish).
Reconstruction of the Road Hill crime: in 1860, the young son of the Kent family is found dead in their mansion in the English countryside. Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard investigates a case that points to someone in the service or the household itself, and which inspired authors such as Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Wilkie Collins.
The original title, in English, is «The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective».
Recommended for those seeking true crime, real cases, and the history of Victorian England.
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Kate Summerscale is an English writer and journalist. She is best known for the bestselling narrative nonfiction books The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which was made into a television drama, The Wicked Boy and The Haunting of Alma Fielding. She has won a number of literary prizes, including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction in 2008.
