The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

or The Murder at Road Hill House

Kate Summerscale (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
9781526612649 (ISBN)

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WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK

'A classic' John le Carré
'Nothing less than a masterpiece' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
'Absolutely riveting' Sarah Waters, Guardian
'Terrific' Ian Rankin
'A triumph' Observer

On a summer’s morning in 1860, the Kent family awakes in their elegant Wiltshire home to a terrible discovery; their youngest son has been brutally murdered. When celebrated detective Jack Whicher is summoned from Scotland Yard he faces the unenviable task of identifying the killer – when the grieving family are the suspects.

The original Victorian whodunnit, the murder and its investigation provoked national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the locked doors of respectable homes – scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing.

Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Her third book, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Kate Summerscale was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. She lives in London. katesummerscale.com

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	1x8pp mono + 1x8pp colour
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-13	9781526612649 / 9781526612649
Zustand	Neuware