A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list Saville's corpse already stiff was laid on a table beneath the kitchen window; upstairs the shape of his sleeping self was still indented on the sheets & pillow of the cot 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 & 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 & loathing