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The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective

Traces the 1860 murder of a young child whose death launched a national obsession with detection throughout England, nearly destroyed the career of a top Scotland Yard investigator, and inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.

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  • "Убийство на Роуд-Хилл"
  • "Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or the murder at Road Hill house"@pl
  • "Suspicions of Mr Whicher"@he
  • "Murder at Road Hill House"@en
  • "Murder at Road Hill House"
  • "Suspicions of Mr Whicher, or, The murder at Road Hill House"@it
  • "Suspicions of Mr. Whicher"
  • "Suspicions of Mr. Whicher"@en
  • "Ubiĭstvo na Roud-Khill"

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  • "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 quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, 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: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love today ... from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade.--From publisher description."
  • "Traces the 1860 murder of a young child whose death launched a national obsession with detection throughout England, nearly destroyed the career of a top Scotland Yard investigator, and inspired the birth of modern detective fiction."@en
  • "Reconstructie van een spraakmakende moord in een Engels landhuis in 1860, die de Britse detectiveschrijvers van het eerste uur inspireerde."
  • "Una noche de verano de 1860, en una elegante mansión de la campiña inglesa, todo está en calma. Tras los ventanales la familia Kent duerme tranquilamente. A medianoche se oye un ladrido. Luego, todo vuelve a quedar en silencio. Cuando a la mañana siguiente se despiertan, los Kent descubren con horror que el más pequeño de sus hijos ha desaparecido de su cuna. Un escalofrío recorre toda la casa y empieza una búsqueda febril hasta que el niño aparece finalmente, asesinado. ¿Quién cometió semejante atrocidad? Las pocas pistas indican que fue alguien que estaba en la casa, alguien del servicio o algún miembro de la familia. No tarda en aparecer en la escena del crimen el inspector Jack Whicher de Scotland Yard, el detective más brillante y respetado de su tiempo, encargado de resolver un caso oscuro y complejo, de apariencia irresoluble, el asesinato que conmocionó a la sociedad victoriana y que inspiró a escritores como Dickens, Conan Doyle o Wilkie Collins. "El asesinato de Road Hill" es el relato verídico de aquellos sucesos, uno de los episodios más siniestros y estremecedores de la historia del crimen."@es
  • "En 1860, au village de Road, dans le Wilthshire, la famille Kent découvre un matin que le petit Saville a disparu durant la nuit. Son cadavre est rapidement retrouvé dans les toilettes des domestiques ; ils réalisent que le meurtrier se trouve nécessairement parmi eux. Tout le monde se passionne pour cette affaire et l'enquête piétine jusqu'à l'arrivée de Jack Whicher."
  • ""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 destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a provocative work of non-fiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written."--Publisher description."@en
  • "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."
  • "It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home."

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  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Case studies"
  • "Case studies"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Powieść kryminalna angielska"@pl
  • "Historische Kriminalromane"
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  • "Podejrzenia pana Whichera : mordestwo w domu na Road Hill"@pl
  • "The suspicions of Mr Whicher or The murder at Road Hill House"
  • "החשדות של מר ויצ׳ר או: הרצח בבית רוד היל"
  • "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, or The Murder at Road Hill House"
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective"
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective"@en
  • "Omicidio a Road Hill House, ovvero, Invenzione e rovina di un detective"@it
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great victorian detective"
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher, or, The murder ar Roud Hill House"
  • "The suspicions of Mr Whicher"
  • "L'affaire de Road Hill House : l'assassinat du petit Saville Kent"
  • "החשדות של מר ויצ'ר או : הרצח בבית רוד היל"
  • "The suspicions of Mr Whicher or the murder at Road Hill House Kate Summerscale. Murder at Road Hill House"
  • "El asesinato de Road Hill / the Suspicions of Mr. Whicher"
  • "Подозрения мистера Уичера, или Убийство на Роуд-Хилл"
  • "החשדות של מר ויצ׳ר : או הרצח בבית רוד היל"
  • "Podozrenii︠a︡ mistera Uichera, ili Ubiĭstvo na Roud-Khill"
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : or, The murder at Road Hill House"
  • "ha-Ḥashadot shel mar Ṿitsher oh: ha-retsaḥ be-bet Rod Hil"
  • "El Asesinato de Road Hill"
  • "Der Verdacht des Mr Whicher der Mord von Road Hill House"
  • "L' affaire de Road Hill House"
  • "Omicidio a Road Hill House : ovvero Invenzione e rovina di un detective"
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective"
  • "L'affaire de Road Hill : l'assassinat du petit Saville Kent"
  • "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victoria detective"@en
  • "Der Verdacht des Mr Whicher oder der Mord von Road Hill House"
  • "ha-Ḥashadot shel mar Ṿits'er"
  • "El asesinato de Road Hill"@es
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Der Verdacht des Mr Whicher, oder, Der Mord von Road Hill House"
  • "The suspicions of Mr Whicher, or, The murder at Road Hill House"
  • "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the murder at Road Hill House"@en
  • "De vermoedens van Mr Whicher, of De moord in Road Hill House"
  • "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher"
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher or The murder at Road Hill House"
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective"
  • "The suspicions of Mr Whicher = The murder at Road Hill House"
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher, or, The murder at Road Hill House"@en
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher, or, The murder at Road Hill House"
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher a murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective"@en
  • "החשדות של מר ויצ'ר או: הרצח בבית רוד היל"
  • "L'affaire de Road Hill house: l'assassinat du petit Saville Kent"@en
  • "Der Verdacht des Mr Whicher oder Der Mord von Road Hill House"
  • "Kharūchāt mǭrana"
  • "Podejrzenia pana Whichera : morderstwo w domu na Road Hill"
  • "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher"
  • "החשדות של מר ויצ'ר, או, הרצח בבית רוד היל"
  • "The suspicions of Mr Whicher or the murder at Road Hill House"@en
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher ; or, The murder at Road Hill House"
  • "Der Verdacht des Mr Whicher"
  • "Suspicions of Mr Whicher"@en
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : or, the murder at Road Hill House"
  • "The suspicions of Mr. Whicher or, The murder at Road Hill House"@en

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