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The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective

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  • Author: Summerscale, Kate
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    2012
    Summary:

    n 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, Jonathan Whicher of Scotland Yard.

    Subject(s): Case studies | Detectives | England--London; England--Wiltshire | Kent family; Murder--Investigation | Murder
    Original Publisher: New York : Walker & Co., 2008, Perth, Western Australia, Association for the Blind of Western Australia
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780802715357