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

Introduction xi

Floorplan of Road Hill House xiv

Family Tree xvi

List of Characters xvii

A Note on Money xx

Prologue xxi

Part 1 The Death

1 To See What We Have Got to See 3

2 The Horror and Amazement 17

3 Shall Not God Search This Out? 27

Part 2 The Detective

4 A Man of Mystery 43

5 Every Clue Seems Cut Off 59

6 Something in Her Dark Cheek 77

7 Shape-Shifters 91

8 All Tight Shut Up 99

9 I Know You 115

10 To Look at a Star by Glances 133

11 What Games Goes On 147

12 Detective-Fever 161

13 A General Putting of This and That Together by the Wrong End 179

14 Women! Hold Your Tongues! 193

Part 3 The Unravelling

15 Like a Crave 207

16 Better She Be Mad 227

17 My Love Turned 247

18 Surely Our Real Detective Liveth 261

19 Fairy-Lands of Fact 283

20 The Music of the Scythe on the Lawn Outside 291

Afterword 303

Postscript 307

Notes 315

List of Illustrations 353

Bibliography 355

Acknowledgements 361

Index 363