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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Kate Summerscale

The dramatic story 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 de...

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

It presented a new theory about the Road Hill House murder case, suggesting that Constance's brother William may have been involved, and was later adapted into a miniseries.

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In 2008, author Kate Summerscale releases a book called The Suspicion of Mr. Witcher, and she has a new theory that Constance's younger brother, William, was the actual killer and Constance was coveri...

— Episode: 299 - London & England

Episode: 299 - London & England

It presented a new theory about the Road Hill House murder case, suggesting that Constance's brother William may have been involved, and was later adapted into a miniseries.

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In 2008, author Kate Summerscale releases a book called The Suspicion of Mr. Witcher, and she has a new theory that Constance's younger brother, William, was the actual killer and Constance was covering for him with her confession.

And Kate actually found while she was researching the book that Witcher did think that Witcher actually thought that William was involved as well as an accomplice, but kind of kept it to himself or that he was at least a confidant and like knew what his sister had done.

In 2008, Kate Summerscale wrote The Suspicions of Mr. Witcher and a TV series based on the book was released three years later.

Patti Consign is the star, and it is so good. I think there's only four of them, though.

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