The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective /
Summerscale, Kate, 1965-
The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Walker & Company, 2008. - xxiii, 360 pages, [16] p. of plates : illustrations (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
To 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.
9780802715357 (alk. paper) 0802715354 (alk. paper)
2008000247
Whicher, Jonathan.
Detectives--England--London--Biography.
Murder--History--England--Wiltshire--19th century--Case studies.
HV 7911 / .W426S86 2008
364.152/3094231
The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Walker & Company, 2008. - xxiii, 360 pages, [16] p. of plates : illustrations (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
To 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.
9780802715357 (alk. paper) 0802715354 (alk. paper)
2008000247
Whicher, Jonathan.
Detectives--England--London--Biography.
Murder--History--England--Wiltshire--19th century--Case studies.
HV 7911 / .W426S86 2008
364.152/3094231