The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale.
Author: Summerscale, Kate, 1965-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: New York : Walker & Company, 2008.
ISBN: 9780802715357 (alk. paper)
0802715354 (alk. paper)
Description: xxiii, 360 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 22 cm.
Subject(s): Whicher, Jonathan.
Detectives England London Biography.
Murder England Wiltshire History 19th century Case studies.
Contents: To see what we have got to see -- The horror and amazement -- Shall not God search 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.
