The suspicions of Mr. Whicher A shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective
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...
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Table of Contents:
- To see what we have got to see
- The horror and amazement
- Shall not God find this out?
- A man of mystery
- Every clue seems cut off
- Something in her dark cheek
- Shape-shifters
- All tight shut up
- I know you
- To look at a star by glances
- What games goes on
- Detective-fever
- A general putting of this and that together by the wrong end
- Women! Hold your tongues!
- Like a crave
- Better she be mad
- My love turned
- Surely our real detective liveth
- Fairy-lands of fact
- The music of the scythe on the lawn outside