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1) The suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

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Summerscale, Kate

Pub. Date

2008.

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English

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363.25 SUMME

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2008.	Walker & Co	xxiii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 363.25 SUMME	More Info Place Hold

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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 quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without...

2) The wicked boy: the mystery of a Victorian child murderer

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Summerscale, Kate

Publisher

Penguin Press

Pub. Date

2016.

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English

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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction

364.1523 SUMME

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364.1523 SUMME

Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction

364.1523 SUMME

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2016.	Penguin Press	378 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm	English	Available Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 SUMME Central - Adult Nonfiction has 2 364.1523 SUMME Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 SUMME Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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In East London in the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age thirteen) and his brother Nattie (age twelve) were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. The judge sentenced him to detention in Broadmoor, the most infamous criminal lunatic asylum in the land. Shockingly, Broadmoor turned out to be the beginning of a new life for Robert. At a time...

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