The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
With this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize shortlist announced, last year’s winner is still enjoying a top-spot in the non-fiction paperback charts. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale tells the fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case and the notorious detective who solved it. The Road House Murder captured not only the nations attention but that of literary figures such as Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, inspiring the latter as he wrote The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Not just a ‘whodunnit’, this book gives an insight in to the changing face of the justice system and public attitudes’ towards gender, class and criminality.
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