The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

The best summary of a detective work as penned by the writer ‘The real business of a detective is the invention of a plot'. Indeed Detective Inspector Jonathan Whicher dreamed up a plot which turned out to be closest to the truth when everyone had alternative theories on the Murder of Francis Sauville Kent. When everyone thought otherwise, the inventive detective saw through all the puzzle set by the shoestring evidence to pin the murder to the cold sister Constance Sauville.

A rollercoster ride in the life of middle class Victorians English people obsessed with murder. One may be mistaken to think is the work of fiction from Charles Dicken's pen but this was an actual murder with a real detective - the first of their kind when the Scotland Yard was formed.