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title:	The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Or the Murder at Road Hill House
author:	Kate Summerscale
format:	Hardcover	Prices compared at 10:20 AM 12/05/08 About pricing data
publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
released:	April 7, 2008
isbn:	0747582157
isbn-13:	9780747582151

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Customer Reviews
Great stuff - amazing detective story - Rated I loved this book - couldn't put it down at all. Even better the fact that it is all real, so you get into it more. It was written really well, enough of the hard facts but in an intriguing edge of your seat type manner. The birth of detective fiction and the death of a child - Rated This book is as much a history of Victorian social values and the emerging field of detective fiction in the nineteenth century as it is a book about a hideous country house murder in 1860. Researched using original police papers from the National Archives, books on the crime and many more sources, the book tells the story of the Road Hill House murder of 1860, when a three year old boy was brutally slain by another occupant of his home. The book sets out to detail the case, from the original event to the investigation by Scotland Yard detective Jack Whicher, to the aftermath suffered by the entire family. It's extremely well written and well researched, and even though there is little to add suspense considering anyone with an Internet connection can discover the identity of the murderer, Summerscale still manages to inject a certain air of tension into proceedings, drawing things out as they must have unfolded at the time. With a peculiar ability to grab your attention and hold it firmly, the book is difficult to put down, and a thoroughly fascinating read for anyone with an interest in detective fiction, real life crime or a historical period that throws up as many questions as it answers. Highly recommended. A fascinating true crime story - Rated This is a brilliantly well-written account of a the first ever murder case to take the nation by storm and spark a whole genre of writing. It is totally gripping from the start, building up all of the tiny facts of the case so you become totally absorbed by it and end up as an armchair detective in the reading of it. The ending is fantastic too - it crescendos to a amazing revelation that doesn't fail to deliver, I was totally hooked to the very end. Intriguing mystery overly spun-out - Rated The basis of the book is good - the epitomy of a country house Victorian murder mystery. The early chapters unfold well and the situation is full of suspense. The problem....there is maybe 150 pages worth of material here. As with so many of these books, the author spins it out. There are links to the fiction of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, as well as comments on the emerging phenomenum of the detective. This reader, at any rate, found these discursions tedious - I bought a book about this murder. Does the booktrade believe that the public won't buy books under 300 pages long?

Customer Reviews

Great stuff - amazing detective story - Rated 5/5
I loved this book - couldn't put it down at all. Even better the fact that it is all real, so you get into it more. It was written really well, enough of the hard facts but in an intriguing edge of your seat type manner.

The birth of detective fiction and the death of a child - Rated 5/5
This book is as much a history of Victorian social values and the emerging field of detective fiction in the nineteenth century as it is a book about a hideous country house murder in 1860. Researched using original police papers from the National Archives, books on the crime and many more sources, the book tells the story of the Road Hill House murder of 1860, when a three year old boy was brutally slain by another occupant of his home. The book sets out to detail the case, from the original event to the investigation by Scotland Yard detective Jack Whicher, to the aftermath suffered by the entire family.

It's extremely well written and well researched, and even though there is little to add suspense considering anyone with an Internet connection can discover the identity of the murderer, Summerscale still manages to inject a certain air of tension into proceedings, drawing things out as they must have unfolded at the time. With a peculiar ability to grab your attention and hold it firmly, the book is difficult to put down, and a thoroughly fascinating read for anyone with an interest in detective fiction, real life crime or a historical period that throws up as many questions as it answers.

Highly recommended.

A fascinating true crime story - Rated 5/5
This is a brilliantly well-written account of a the first ever murder case to take the nation by storm and spark a whole genre of writing. It is totally gripping from the start, building up all of the tiny facts of the case so you become totally absorbed by it and end up as an armchair detective in the reading of it. The ending is fantastic too - it crescendos to a amazing revelation that doesn't fail to deliver, I was totally hooked to the very end.

Intriguing mystery overly spun-out - Rated 3/5
The basis of the book is good - the epitomy of a country house Victorian murder mystery. The early chapters unfold well and the situation is full of suspense. The problem....there is maybe 150 pages worth of material here. As with so many of these books, the author spins it out. There are links to the fiction of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, as well as comments on the emerging phenomenum of the detective. This reader, at any rate, found these discursions tedious - I bought a book about this murder.
Does the booktrade believe that the public won't buy books under 300 pages long?