THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER: OR THE MURDER AT ROAD HILL HOUSE

Book ID/图书代码： 11701207B19009

English Summary/英文概要： 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; and, 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.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书已在英语国家狂销500，000册，并囊括英国图书奖和英国非小说类图书奖双重奖项

故事发生在1860年的仲夏夜，Georgian House在Road, Wiltshire的村庄里遗世而独立，一切都显得那么的静谧。百叶窗遮蔽的屋内，Kent一家正睡意沉沉。午夜某时，突然听见狗吠的声音。第二天，一家人醒来，惊悚地发现家中发生了惨绝人寰的谋杀案。案发后，Kent一家还是心有余悸，因为凶手还在他们中间。那个时代最著名的侦探Jack Whicher在案发两星期后前来侦查。他面临着难以想象的艰巨任务：此时陷于悲痛中的Kent家族成员正是他所要调查的对象。此桩谋杀案件令全国唏嘘。而中产阶级家族背后的复杂情况更是令人疑惑不解，处处生疑：有所图谋的佣人，叛逆的孩子，疯狂，嫉妒，孤独，厌恶的情感充斥着整个家族，引来恐慌。但当Whicher最后将真相公布天下之时，更是令无数的人感到震惊疑惑。

这是一个真实死亡故事，曾激起一代文豪的灵感，撰写出经典的谋杀故事—一具尸体，一名侦探，以及一座背后拥有无数秘密的乡下屋子。在本部作品中，Kate Summerscale为读者解开背后的事实真相，将经典案件重现于世人眼前。(YM)

Awards/获奖情况：THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER: UK: Bloomsbury (pub April 2008), US: Walker & Co.; Brazil: Companhia das Letras; France: Bourgois; Germany: Bloomsbury; Greece: Patakis; Holland: Nieuw Amsterdam; Israel: Modan; Italy: Einaudi; Norway: Gyldendal; Poland: WAB; Russia: AST; Spain: Lumen (Random House Mondadori); Thailand: Post Publishing.

500,000 copies sold in English worldwide so far! Won the UK Book Award and UK Non-fiction Book Award last month!
Brilliant!

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