The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9648-6
Systematik: R 82
Verlag: London : Bloomsbury
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Schlagworte:
R 82
Summerscale, Kate:
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House / Kate Summerscale. - 14. Auflage. - London : Bloomsbury, 2009. - 372 Seiten : Illustrationen
ISBN 978-0-7475-9648-6 kart. GBP 7,99 ; FSK 12
TRUE-CRIME-THRILLER ; ENGLISCHE SPRACHE ; ORIGINALSPRACHE ; MORD ; FAMILIE ; VERDÄCHTIGUNGEN ; ENGLAND ; WAHRE BEGEBENHEIT ; WAHRE GESCHICHTE ; WAHRER KRIMINALFALL
It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quit in the Kent family's elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder. Even worse, the guilty party is surely one of their number - the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day, arrives at Road to track down the killer, the murder provokes national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing.
This true story has all the hallmarks of a classic gripping murder mystery. A body, a detective, a country house steeped in secrets and a whole family of suspects - it is the original Victorian whodunnit.
von Kate Summerscale