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Author : Yseult Bridges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Tragedy at Road-Hill House written by Yseult Bridges and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747582157
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher written by Kate Summerscale and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.
Author : Bernard Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780285623873
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Cruelly Murdered written by Bernard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143129376
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Haunting of Hill House written by Shirley Jackson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Haunting of Hill House written by Shirley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noeline Kyle
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 1921555343
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)
Download or read book A Greater Guilt written by Noeline Kyle and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutal murder of a child in a small English village in 1860 which remained an unsolved crime until the sensational confession of Constance Emilie Kent in 1865. If you are a true crime enthusiast, if you wonder about what happens to a woman, a human being, after they confess, are tried and then imprisoned for twenty years you will enjoy Noeline Kyle's tracing of Constance Kent's extraordinary life before, during and after this awful crime. Constance Kent trained as a nurse at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, worked at the Coast Hospital at Little Bay, was matron of the notorious Parramatta Industrial School for girls and matron of a nurses' home in Maitland, she was a convicted murderess but lived to the grand old age of 100 under an assumed name and not once did anyone in the Antipodes suspect her true identity.
Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408801582
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher written by Kate Summerscale and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list _______________ WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK _______________ 'A remarkable achievement' - Sunday Times 'A classic, to my mind, of the finest documentary writing' - John le Carré 'Absolutely riveting' - Sarah Waters, Guardian _______________ On a summer's morning in 1860, the Kent family awakes in their elegant Wiltshire home to a terrible discovery; their youngest son has been brutally murdered. When celebrated detective Jack Whicher is summoned from Scotland Yard he faces the unenviable task of identifying the killer – when the grieving family are the suspects. The original Victorian whodunnit, the murder and its investigation provoked national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the locked doors of respectable homes – scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing. _______________ 'Nothing less than a masterpiece' - Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'Terrific' - Ian Rankin 'A triumph' - Observer 'Gripping, unputdownable' - Sunday Telegraph 'A terrific read in the Wilkie Collins tradition' - Susan Hill 'The best whodunnit of the year - and it's all true ... Agatha Christie, eat your heart out' - Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler
Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802715354
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher written by Kate Summerscale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the 1860 murder of a young child whose death launched a national obsession with detection throughout England, nearly destroyed the career of a top Scotland Yard investigator, and inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.
Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779298
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher written by Kate Summerscale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-05 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling account of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction. 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. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, 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: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love today . . . from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written.
Author : Cecil John Charles Street
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Case of Constance Kent written by Cecil John Charles Street and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher written by Kate Summerscale and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: t's 1860. Saville Kent, age three, is murdered in an outdoor privy. The crime horrifies England. It leads to a national obsession that turns the masses into amateur sleuths. Inspector Jonathan Whicher is Britain's best. He realizes right away that the murder was an inside job-and he sees who did it. But Victorians refuse to believe that one family member can kill another. Unable to prove his circumstantial case, Whicher returns discredited to London. Only five years later, he turns out to have been right. But Whicher's real legacy lives on in fiction. He becomes the model for the tough, intuitive detectives that we've loved ever since: the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, the heroes of Law and Order and CSI. Now Kate Summerscale tells the story of the case that inspired the rise of the British mystery novel. This provocative true-crime story reads like a Victorian thriller.
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669393291
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (693 download)
Download or read book Summary of Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-26T22:59:00Z with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 On Friday, 29 June 1860, Samuel and Mary Kent were asleep in their house in Road, five miles from Trowbridge. They were bedridden with a baby on the first floor. Their eldest daughter, five-year-old Mary Amelia, shared their room. #2 On Friday, the Kents' nursemaid, Emily Doel, put the children to bed. Half an hour later, Gough carried Eveline up to the nursery and put her in the cot next to her own. The five-year-old Mary Amelia was put to bed in the room she shared with her parents. #3 The family was asleep in the nursery when the comet passed through the sky. At 10 p. m. , Mr Kent opened the yard door and unchained his black Newfoundland guard dog. #4 On the night of the murders, the dog in the house barked, but nobody heard anything out of the ordinary. The sun rose two or three minutes before 4 a. m. The door was safe as usual, and the window was a little bit open.
Author : Joseph Whitaker Stapleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Great Crime of 1860 written by Joseph Whitaker Stapleton and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the murder of Francis Seville Kent, on June 29, 1860.
Author : Cecil John Charles Street
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Case of Constance Kent written by Cecil John Charles Street and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781408824528
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (245 download)
Download or read book The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Or, The Murder at Road Hill House written by Kate Summerscale and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks.The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. The murder provokes national hysteria. The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing - arouses fear and a kind of excitement. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment.A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery - a body; a detective; a country house steeped in secrets. In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life.
Author : Mary S. Hartman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486794938
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Victorian Murderesses written by Mary S. Hartman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen famous cases, offering illuminating details of the accused women's backgrounds, deeds, and trials. "Vividly written, meticulously researched." — Choice.
Author : A. Mangham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230286992
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Violent Women and Sensation Fiction written by A. Mangham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores ideas of violent femininity across generic and disciplinary boundaries during the nineteenth century. It aims to highlight how medical, legal and literary narratives shared notions of the volatile nature of women. Mangham traces intersections between notorious legal trials, theories of female insanity, and sensation novels.
