SUMMERSCALE, Kate - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House -(Excellent P/b)

Book in a great unmarked condition.    >>>    It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent family's elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder - the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day, arrives at Road to track down the killer, the murder provokes national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealously, loneliness and loathing.   -   This true story has all the hallmarks of a classic gripping murder mystery. A body, a detective, a country house steeped in secrets and a whole family of suspects - it is the original Victorian whodunnit.   (from the back cover)   >>>   This is the story of a murder committed in an English country house in 1860. The search for the killer threatened the career of one of the first and greatest detectives.   >>>     In 1860, a three-year-old British boy was found murdered at his family's country estate, and Scotland Yard Detective Jonathan Jack Whicher was charged with the case.