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  • The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

  • or The Murder at Road Hill House
  • By: Kate Summerscale
  • Narrated by: Jessica Ball
  • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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By: Kate Summerscale
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Publisher's Summary

Bloomsbury presents The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale, read by Jessica Ball.  

An exquisite new edition of the true crime classic; 'a classic' (John le Carré).

Saville’s corpse, already stiff, was laid on a table beneath the kitchen window; upstairs the shape of his sleeping self was still indented on the sheets and pillow of the cot.  

On a summer’s morning in 1860, the Kent family awakes in their elegant Wiltshire home to a terrible discovery; their youngest son has been brutally murdered. When celebrated detective Jack Whicher is summoned from Scotland Yard he faces the unenviable task of identifying the killer - when the grieving family are the suspects.  

The original Victorian whodunnit, the murder and its investigation provoked national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the locked doors of respectable homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing.

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©2008 Kate Summerscale (P)2019 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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