Kate Summerscale THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER Signed Special Edition
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Kate Summerscale THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER Signed Special Edition
Special Edition hardback of THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER Or the Murder at Road Hill House, by Kate Summerscale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, in 2009. Signed by the author on the front end paper.The book is in very good condition (Clean original red and cream paper boards, illustrated end papers, black dyed page edges, cream lettering on the spine and front). No dust jacket as issued. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions. Minimal loss to some of the colour on the lettering on the front cover.
First issue of the 'special edition' which was produced following the success of the original edition. Contains a special eight-page gatefold section of contemporary documents from the Road Hill House investigation, including letters, police reports and Whicher's case notes.
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2008, and the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, 'fastest woman on water', which won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1998 and was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Awards for biography.
Kate Summerscale has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize in 2001.
"It is a summers night in 1860. In an elegant detached 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. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects.
The murder provokes national hysteria. 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 arouses fear and a kind of excitement. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment.
A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery a body; a detective; a country house steeped in secrets. In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life."
It is a beautiful piece, written with great lucidity and respect for the reader, and with immaculate restraint. A classic, to my mind, of the finest documentary writing. - John Le Carre
Sparse, melancholy, beautifully written the years most beguiling biography - Independent
372 pages. With monochrome illustrations throughout.
ISBN: 978 1 4088 0356 1
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