Posted on 03/05/08
The great detective stumbles
THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHERA Murder and the Undoingof a Great Victorian DetectiveBy Kate SummerscaleRaincoast, 360 pages, $28.95In this extraordinary book, Kate Summerscale, former literary editor of Britain's Daily Telegraph, recreates within the conventions of the country-house mystery the investigation into the Road Hill Murder, which for a time obsessed Victorian England.
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