by Kate Summerscale · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499083063
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«El asesinato de Road Hill» is Kate Summerscale's true crime chronicle, published by Debolsillo in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
In 1860, the young son of the Kent family disappears from their mansion in the English countryside and is found murdered. Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard investigates a case in which servants and relatives are suspects. Kate Summerscale reconstructs this real crime that shocked the Victorian era and left its mark on mystery literature.
Original title: «The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective». Translated by Roberto Frías Llorens.
A work of historical non-fiction for mystery readers interested in the Victorian era and the origins of the detective novel.
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.
