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The dramatic story of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection,... read more
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“This is the story of a murder committed in an English country house in 1860, perhaps the most disturbing murder of its time.”
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On Sunday, 15 July 1860, Detective-Inspector Jonathan Whicher of Scotland Yard paid two shillings for a hansom cab to take him from Millbank, just west of Westminster, to Paddington station, the London terminus of the Great Western Railway.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Prologue
Part One: The Death
1. To See What We Have Got to See
2. The Horror and Amazement
3. Shall Not God Search This Out?
Part Two: The Detective
4. A Man of Mystery
5. Every Clue Seems Cut Off
6. Something in Her Dark Cheek
7. Shape-Shifters
8. All Tight Shut Up
9. I Know You
10. To Look at a Star by Glances
11. What Games Goes On
12. Detective-Fever
13. A General Putting of This and That Together by the Wrong End
14. Women! Hold Your Tongues!
Part Three: The Unravelling
15. Like a Crave
16. Better She Be Mad
17. My Love Turned
18. Surely Our Real Detective Liveth
19. Fairy-Lands of Fact
20. The Music of the Scythe on the Lawn Outside
Authors & Contributors
- Kate Summerscale (Author)
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