The butler didn’t do it
Bee Wilson: The First Detectives, 19 June 2008
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House
by Kate Summerscale.
Bloomsbury, 334 pp., £14.99, April 2008,978 0 7475 8215 1 Show More
by Kate Summerscale.
Bloomsbury, 334 pp., £14.99, April 2008,
“... shown up by Whicher’s energy – briefed the press against him. Constance’s defence lawyer, Peter Edlin of Bristol, accused him of too much ‘professional eagerness in the pursuit of the criminal’. It was ‘improper’, Edlin said, to question Constance’s schoolfriends. Edlin succeeded in persuading the magistrates that the case had no ... ”