The dramatic story of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.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 dest
The suspicions of mr. whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing of a great victorian detective
β Scribed by Kent family.;Summerscale, Kate;Whicher, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 610 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- England--Wiltshire.
- ISBN
- 152661264X
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β¦ Subjects
England -- Wiltshire
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