Format:
Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Read-along
Title:
The suspicions of Mr. Whicher [sound recording] : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective] / Kate Summerscale.
Author:
Summerscale, Kate, 1965-
Call Number:
364.152309 Summersc CD BOOK
Publisher, Date:
St. Paul, Minn. : Highbridge Audio, 2008.
Description:
8 sound discs (9 3/4 hr.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sheet ([6] p. : 1 geneal. table, 1 plan ; 12 x 36 cm. issued folded to 12 x 12 cm.)
Summary:
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 believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was responsible for the murder, but without sufficient evidence or a confession, 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 - he has become the inspiration for the many fictional investigators of today - from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, to Arthur Conan Doyal's Sherlock Holmes.
Subjects:
Whicher, Jonathan.
Kent family.
Detectives -- England -- London -- Biography.
Murder -- England -- Wiltshire -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Murder -- Investigation -- England -- Wiltshire -- History -- 19th century.
Unabridged audiobooks.
Spoken compact discs.
Nonfiction audiobooks.
Genre:
Audiobooks.
Other Author:
Vance, Simon.
Other Title:
Suspicions of Mister Whicher
ISBN:
9781598878493
1598878492