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_aHV7911.W426 _bS86 2008 |
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| 100 | 1 | _aSummerscale, Kate, 1965- | |
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_aThe suspicions of Mr. Whicher _b: a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective _c/ by Kate Summerscale |
| 250 | _a1st U.S. edition | ||
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_aNew York _b: Walker & Company _c, 2008. |
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_axxiii, 360 p., [16] p. of plates _b: ill. (some col.), maps _c; 22 cm. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aTo 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. | |
| 520 | _aIn 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 detective in the land, Jonathan Whicher of Scotland Yard. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. Though he would be vindicated five years later, the real legacy of Jonathan Whicher lives on in fiction: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love today ... from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade.--From publisher description. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | _aWicher, Jonathan |
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_aDetectives _z-England _z-London _v--Biography |
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_aMurder _z-England _x-History _y-19th century |
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