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The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : or, The murder at Road Hill House
- Title
- The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : or, The murder at Road Hill House / by Kate Summerscale.
- Author
- Summerscale, Kate, 1965-
- Publication
- London : Bloomsbury, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 360 pages
- Summary
- A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery - a body, a detective, and a country house steeped in secrets. The author untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographic references (p.305-347).
- Contents
- To see what we have got to see -- The horror and amazement -- Shall not God find this out? -- A man of mystery -- Every clue seems cut off -- Something in her dark cheek -- Shape-shifters -- All tight shut up -- I know you -- To look at a star by glances -- What games goes on -- Detective-fever -- A general putting of this and that together by the wrong end -- Women! Hold your tongues! -- Like a crave -- Better she be mad -- My love turned -- Surely our real detective liveth -- Fairy-lands of fact -- The music of the scythe on the lawn outside.
- ISBN
- 9780747582151
- 0747582157
- 9780747597285
- 0747597286
- 9780747596486
- 0747596484
- 9781408803561
- 1408803569
- 9780747599227
- 074759922X
- 9781408825528 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2008000247
- OCLC
- ocn246554929
- 246554929
- SCSB-1779020
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library