The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective
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New York : Walker & Company :, 2008.
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9780802717429, 9780802715357, 0802715354
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Published
New York : Walker & Company :, 2008.
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Book
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xxiii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm
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English
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9780802717429, 9780802715357, 0802715354

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-347) and index.
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In 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. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. Though he would be vindicated five years later, the real legacy of Jonathan Whicher lives on in fiction: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love today ... from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade.--From publisher description.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Summerscale, K. (2008). The suspicions of Mr. Whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective (First U.S. edition.). Walker & Company :.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Summerscale, Kate, 1965-. 2008. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective. Walker & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Summerscale, Kate, 1965-. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective Walker & Company, 2008.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Summerscale, Kate. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective First U.S. edition., Walker & Company :, 2008.

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