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Cargando... The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House (2008 original; edición 2009)por Kate Summerscale
Información de la obraAsesinato en Road Hill por Kate Summerscale (2008)
  
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 The case has been discussed many times, and Summerscale turns the spotlight on the detective. This would be interesting if she knew more about him, but the material is so threadbare that Whicher cannot buy a railway ticket without our being given a description of Paddington Station. Yet she omits crucial information about the ill-treatment of Constance's brother. Painstaking but never boring recreation of a sensational 1860 murder brings to shivering life the age of the Victorian detective. The Road Hill case served as fodder for the emerging detective genre taken up with relish by such authors as Dickens, Poe and Wilkie Collins. It perplexed detectives at the time and was resolved five years after the deed—and then only partially and unsatisfactorily, avers British journalist and biographer Summerscale.... Summerscale pursues the story over decades, enriching the account with explanations of the then-new detective terminology and methods and suggesting a convincing motive for Constance’s out-of-the-blue confession. A bang-up sleuthing adventure.  More important, Summerscale accomplishes what modern genre authors hardly bother to do anymore, which is to use a murder investigation as a portal to a wider world. When put in historical context, every aspect of this case tells us something about mid-Victorian society, Pertenece a las series editorialesPremiosListas de sobresalientes
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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, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable-that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. Though he would be vindicated five years later, the real legacy of Jonathan Whicher lives on in fiction: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love today: from the cryptic Sergeant Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it author Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Cuando, a la mañana siguiente, se despiertan, los Kent descubren con horror que el más pequeño de sus hijos ha desaparecido de su cuna. Un escalofrío recorre toda la casa y empiezan una búsqueda febril hasta que el niño aparece finalmente asesinado.
¿Quién cometió semejante atrocidad? Las pocas pistas indican que fue alguien que estaba en la casa, alguien del servicio o algún miembro de la familia. No tarda en aparecer en la escena del crimen el inspector Jack Whicher de Scotland Yard, el detective más brillante y respetado de su tiempo, encargado de resolver un caso oscuro y complejo, de apariencia irresoluble, el asesinato que conmocionó a la sociedad victoriana y que inspiró a escritores como Dickens, Conan Doyle o Wilkie Collins.