On the 31st June 1860 inside a typical middle class home in Victorian England, the Kent family wake to find that their youngest son has been gruesomely murdered. The guilty party is almost certainly one of their household as the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day, arrives to track down the killer, the murder provokes national hysteria at the thought of what might have happened behind the closed doors of this respectable home. This true story has all the hallmarks of a classic gripping murder mystery.

Der Mord in einem herrschaftlichen Landhaus im Jahr 1860 und seine schockierende Auflösung löste in England eine nationale Hysterie aus und hat Generationen von Autoren wie Charles Dickens und Arthur Conan Doyle inspiriert. Eine temporeichen Analyse eines wahren britischen Mordfalls mit dessen Aufklärung einer der ersten Detektive von Scotland Yard beauftrag wurde.

Kate Summerscale: Kate Summerscale was born in 1965. She 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. She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in London with her five-year-old son.