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The dramatic story of the reallife murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction In June of 1860 threeyearold 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 landAt 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 as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate Inspector Jonathan Whicher Whicher quickly believed the unbelievablethat 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 allseeing detective that we know and love todayfrom the cryptic Sgt Cuff in Wilkie Collinss The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammetts Sam Spade The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is a provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller and in it Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written
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It is a summers night in 1860 In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road Wiltshire all is quiet Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep At some point after midnight a dog barks The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home The household reverberates with shock not least because the guilty party is surely still among them Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard the most celebrated detective of his day reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later He faces an unenviable task to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects The murder provokes national hysteria The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middleclass homes scheming servants rebellious children insanity jealousy loneliness and loathing arouses fear and a kind of excitement But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery a body a detective a country house steeped in secrets In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case bringing it back to vivid extraordinary life
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Suspicion at Sanditon a new adventure in Carrie Bebriss awardwinning Mr amp Mrs Darcy Mystery series takes Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy to Sanditon the setting of Jane Austens final work There accompanied by their friend Miss Charlotte Heywood they encounter an array of eccentric villagers and visitors Among Sanditons most prominent residents Lady Denham a childless twicewidowed dowager with a fortune to bequeath and a flight of distant relations circling for a place in her willThe Darcys have scarcely settled into their lodgings when Lady Denham unexpectedly invites them to a dinner party Thirteen guests assemble at Sanditon Housebut their hostess never appears As a violent storm rises a search for Lady Denham begins The Darcys like most of their fellow attendees speculate that one of her ladyships wouldbe heirs has grown impatient until the guests start to vanish one by oneDoes a kidnapper lurk in the centuriesold mansion or is a still more sinister force at work As the night grows short the dwellings population grows thin and tales of Sanditon Houses storied past emerge Mr and Mrs Darcy find themselves leading a desperate effort to discover what has happened to Lady Denham and the missing guests before they allperhaps even Elizabeth and Darcy themselvesdisappearThe Regency eras answer to Nick and Nora Charles the Darcys once again demonstrate their quick wits and signature wit as they search for the truthuniversally acknowledged and otherwise
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With all the charm of a Georgette Heyer novel the sequel to Bellfield Hall finds Miss Dido Kent vacationing at the home of her cousin When a neighbor passes away quite suddenly Dido feels she is ideally placed to observe the reaction of the community but her suitor Mr William Lomax feels otherwise As Dido presses on she learns more about the dirty dealings among the upper classes of Surrey than even she could have imagined Anna Dean has crafted a delightful historical mystery series the next best thing to reading Jane Austen
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Elizabeth Bowen one of the writers considered in this book described the relationship of Ireland and England as a mixture of showingoff and suspicion nearly as bad as sex In these essays Roy Foster explores the patterns of resentment exploitation dependence and rejection which were created by centuries of proximity colonization and emigration Often seen through the individual experiences of people caught between England and Ireland a varied gallery including Randolph Churchill Thackeray Trollope Yeats Parnell and the notorious Mrs OShea these intersections also cut across subjects like the representation of the Irish in Victorian journalism and fiction the roots of constitutional nationalist agitation and the making of literary reputations The last essay Marginal Men and Micks on the Make is a wideranging discussion of the uses of exile both to and from Ireland Against the cut and dried stereotypes of AngloIrish relations an overall ambiguity is asserted here whether the topic examined is the flawed structure of the Act of Union the way words are used in Irish political rhetoric or the divided allegiances of Parnell Yeats and Bowen These closely linked essays stress assonances as well as dissonances and provide a commentary on neglected aspects of literary history and national identity
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An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottageMrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger James Bentley whose clothes revealed traces of the victims blood and hair Yet something was amiss Bentley just didnt look like a murderer Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows what he didnt realise was that his own life was now in great danger
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Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger James Bentley whose clothes reveal traces of the victims blood and hair Yet something is amiss Bentley just doesnt seem like a murderer
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An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottageMrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger James Bentley whose clothes revealed traces of the victims blood and hair Yet something was amiss Bentley just didnt look like a murderer Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows what he didnt realise was that his own life was now in great danger
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When Sidney Middleton a wellrespected and muchloved citizen of Taviscombe village is murdered Mrs Malory sets out to find the truth and makes a shocking discovery about Sidney that places everyone in the village under suspicion Original
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The loveably quirky Father Brown returns for a fourth series in the sleepy Cotswold village of Kembleford He is aided by Mrs McCarthy Lady Felicia Montague and Sid Carter A missing man returns just as his wife is about to remarry When he is found dead suspicion falls on those closest to him Sids romance with a brewers daughter gets complicated when he learns she is married and is also her alibi for her fathers murder
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Claire and Dan Claiborne suspect theres a catch when rich and stingy Mrs Shelby Bell invites them to stay at the Bell Sands her oceanfront resort east of Biloxi Mississippi When they arrive to torrential rain and a beauty pageant spiraling out of control their suspicions are confirmed As the couple attempts to discover whos sabotaging Miss Gulf Coast a series of homicides threaten the beauty queens
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Old Mrs Lauder was as loathsome as her lilies were lovely Every year the vicar had hoped for a change of heart in this sinister woman whose murder brought fear and suspicion to the village and to the Church the lilies she had denied them every Easter while she lived But somewhere in those waxen blooms there was a message and a danger signal
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When prominent GP Arnold Pettifer is found dead of an overdose Inspector Thanet is immediately suspicious for Dr Pettifer apparently had everything to live for The finger of suspicion points at Mrs Pettifer particularly when it emerges that she has a lover
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As her health declines elderly Mrs Mortimers greedy family becomes increasingly interested in her estate raising the suspicions of Father Dowling and a teenage trio
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New York a small town on the tip of Manhattan island 1746 One rainy evening in November a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a countinghouse door in Golden Hill Street this is Mr Smith amiable charming yet strangely determined to keep suspicion simmering For in his pocket he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds a huge amount and he wont explain why or where he comes from or what he can be planning to do in the colonies that requires so much money Should the New York merchants trust him Should they risk their credit and refuse to pay Should they befriend him seduce him arrest him maybe even kill him An astonishing first novel as stuffed with incident as a whole shelf of conventional fiction Golden Hill is both a book about the eighteenth century and itself a novel cranked back to the forms eighteenth century beginnings when anything could happen on the page and usually did and a hero was not a hero unless he ran the frequent risk of being hanged Rich in language and historical perception yet compulsively readable Golden Hill has a plot that twists in every chapter and a puzzle at its heart that wont let go till the last paragraph of the last page Set a generation before the American Revolution it paints an irresistible picture of a New York provokingly different from its later self but subtly shadowed by the great city to come and already entirely a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh fall in love and find a world of trouble
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Uneasy about her new substitute teacher Susan Simmons suspicions about Mr Smith are confirmed when she discovers he is an alien determined to bring some sixthgrade specimens back to his planet
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