by Kate Summerscale · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747599227
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«The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher» is Kate Summerscale's true crime essay, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (384 pages, in English).
In 1860, a murder shakes Road Hill House, a Georgian house in Wiltshire. Jack Whicher, the most celebrated Scotland Yard detective of his time, investigates a case with the grieving family among the suspects. Kate Summerscale reconstructs the real story that inspired Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle.
The book, published in 2008, was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award.
The book is suitable for fans of true crime, Victorian history and the origins of detective fiction.
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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.
