The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale (Omnibus)
Scotland Yard's top detective Jack Whicher probes a gruesome 1860 country house murder of a child. Read by Deborah Findlay.
It was a Victorian murder case that gripped the nation.
One summer's night in 1860 an unimaginably gruesome killing takes place in a remote Georgian country house. The household reverberates with shock, not least because it seems the murderer is still among them.
Called to the scene is Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, whose methods go on to influence the writing of Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and Arthur Conan-Doyle.
With only an inept local police force to help him, he faces an unenviable task - to solve a case in which all the grieving family are suspects.
Kate Summerscale's gripping account is read by Deborah Findlay.
Omnibus of five parts abridged by Doreen Estall.
Producer: Justine Willett
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in April 2008.
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