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094745 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 140818 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Read by Simon Vance. |
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Duration: 9:47:45. |
| Summary |
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, Jonathan Whicher of Scotland Yard. Whicher believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was responsible for the murder, but without sufficient evidence or a confession, 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 - he has become the inspiration for the many fictional investigators of today - from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, to Arthur Conan Doyal's Sherlock Holmes. |
| Subject |
Whicher, Jonathan.
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Kent family.
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Detectives -- England -- London -- Biography.
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Murder -- England -- Wiltshire -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
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Murder -- Investigation -- England -- Wiltshire -- History -- 19th century.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Vance, Simon.
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OverDrive, Inc.
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| Added Title |
Suspicions of Mister Whicher |
| Related To |
Original 1598878492 (OCoLC)278435124 |
| ISBN |
9781598878530 ODA (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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1598878530 ODA (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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