The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

副标题: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

ISBN: 9780802717429

出版社: Walker & Company

出版年: 2009-2-24

页数: 400

定价: USD 16.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

The national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. T he 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. I nspector Jonathan Whicher's real legacy, however, lives on in fiction: the tough, quirky, all-knowing and all-seeing detective that we know and love today...from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's "The Moonstone "to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade. "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher "reads like the best of Victorian thrillers, and has been nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize in London.