by Kate Summerscale · Bloomsbury · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408806142
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«The Suspicions of Mr Whicher» is Kate Summerscale's true crime essay, published by Bloomsbury in paperback, in English.
In 1860, a horrifying murder in the Georgian house of the Kent family, in Road (Wiltshire), shakes Victorian England. Kate Summerscale reconstructs the investigation of detective Jack Whicher and the suspicions that fall on the family itself, along with the moral panic the crime provoked in the middle class. The case inspired Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle.
The work received the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008 and the British Book Award in 2009.
Recommended for fans of true crime, Victorian history and the origins of the detective novel.
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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.
