sevenspiders - reviewed on 7/8/2008 + 73 more book reviews

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Kate Summerscale brings the hither-to untold story of a gruesome murder that brought the gothic sentiments of the Victorian era to a climax and redefined its views of crime, detection and tragedy. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher unravels the fascinating tales of the crime itself and the effect it had on society as for the first time, an upper-class family suffered an unspeakable crime that could only have been committed from within.

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