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SUMMERSCALE**, KATE: : The SUSPICIONS of MR WHICHER or THE MURDER at ROAD HILL HOUSE.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

LONDON.BLOOMSBURY BOOKS,2008.

ISBN 9780747582151.

UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,author SIGNED, 1st edn.[Number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.] NFINE/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten,black ink signature - without dedication - towards the foot of title page.Bright,crisp,clean, protected dw/dj,cream background with contemporary black illustration with black+brown lettering; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and generally clean; contents bright,tight and clean.Publisher's sharp-cornered,original,plain reddish-brown cloth boards,generally bright,crisp and clean - apart from residue of small water- stain bleeding/bleaching to both lower corners and to foot of spine/backstrip too - though the protected dw/dj is unaffected.Bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,headband and near immaculate b/w house plan illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,x-xxiiipp+4-360pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, author's introduction,family tree,list of characters,a note on money,a prologue,Pts 1-3 comprising 20 chapters and an afterword,16pp contemporary b/w+colour illus+photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp72/3 and pp200/1 respectively,and to rear - notes,list of illus,a bibliography,acknowledgements and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title, SIGNED title page,a dedication,and prose extract (from Wilkie Collins's,'The Moonstone'). he bottom corners of the second block of illustrations (pp200/1) shows signs/presence of light water-stains. Described hard,but fairly and honestly - not as bad as it reads or may sound! Uncommon to find SIGNED copies. 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. About an hour after midnight a dog barks: the Kent's Newfoundland is known for reacting noisily to the slightest provocation. The family wakes 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 almost certainly still among them.Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard,the most celebrated detective of his day,is sent to investigate the murder at Road Hill House. With only an inept local police force to help him,and no material evidence,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 hiding behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants,rebellious children,insanity,jealousy,loneliness,loathing - arouses fear an a kind of excitement.Everyone has a theory about the identity of the killer.But when Whicher reaches his own 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. Kate Summerscale is the author of the bestselling 'The Queen of Whale Cay',which won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+ protected dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Author SIGNED - without dedication.

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