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Review of ‘The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher’

There are four parallel stories in play in Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective, each told and interwoven with admirable skill and definition. The first concerns the murder of three-year-old Saville Kent at his home in rural England in 1860 and the manner…

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