The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

A horrifying Victorian murder mystery, and the detective who solved it

The Supsicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale

It is a summer’s night in 1860. In an elegant 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. When Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House, he faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects.

This true story has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery - a body; a detective; a country house steeped in secrets. Kate Summerscale untangles the facts, bringing the case back to vivid, extraordinary life.

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner of the British Book Awards Book of the Year

‘A tour de force … More than a true-crime account,
it’s the story of the intertwining of the detective novel and
real-life detectives … a must-read’
Sara Paretsky

Now a major TV drama

The Supsicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale ITV drama Paddy Considine

The Supsicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale ITV drama with Paddy Considine

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