![]() ![]() In imitation of the detective, Kate Summerscale reveals facts only as they are gradually discovered. Could the culprit be one of the boy's family, or one of the family's servants? With the local police baffled, Jack Whicher, a detective from the Metropolitan police, arrives to investigate and, with the contemporary testimonies carefully reassembled, we follow his investigation.Ī detective is a discoverer of concealed connections between events – a discoverer of plot. His body was found, his throat cut, shoved down a servants' privy in the grounds of his parents' mansion. ![]() Three-year-old Saville Kent, son of an affluent Wiltshire factory inspector, was taken from his bed at night and killed. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher reanimates the investigation of a peculiarly shocking – one might say peculiarly intimate – Victorian murder. ![]()
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