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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
or The Murder at Road Hill House
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Artikel-Nr:
9780747596486
Veröffentl:
2009
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.01.2009
Seiten:
400
Autor:
Kate Summerscale
Gewicht:
310 g
Format:
198x128x32 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of 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. Kate Summerscale has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in north London.
_______________WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONTHE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK_______________'A remarkable achievement' - Sunday Times'A classic, to my mind, of the finest documentary writing' - John le Carré'Absolutely riveting' - Sarah Waters, Guardian_______________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._______________'Nothing less than a masterpiece' - Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday'Terrific' - Ian Rankin'A triumph' - Observer'Gripping, unputdownable' - Sunday Telegraph'A terrific read in the Wilkie Collins tradition' - Susan Hill'The best whodunnit of the year - and it's all true ... Agatha Christie, eat your heart out' - Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler
Der Mord in einem herrschaftlichen Landhaus im Jahr 1860 und seine schockierende Auflösung löste in England eine nationale Hysterie aus und hat Generationen von Autoren wie Charles Dickens und Arthur Conan Doyle inspiriert. Eine temporeichen Analyse eines wahren britischen Mordfalls mit dessen Aufklärung einer der ersten Detektive von Scotland Yard beauftrag wurde.
Kate Summerscale's new book The Haunting of Alma Fielding will publish in autumn 2020 and will be backed by a major marketing and publicity campaign