![]() ![]() But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment. 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. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. Based on Kate Summerscales bestselling novel, this true-to-life Victorian mystery follows Scotland Yard DI Jack Whicher, who is sent to investigate the. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale 3.2 (66) Paperback (Reprint) 19.00 Paperback 19.00 eBook 10.99 Audiobook 0. ![]() The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. At some point after midnight a dog barks. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Whicher : Or the Murder at Road Hill House ![]()
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