Authors: Kate Summerscale
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder And The Undoing Of A Great Victorian Detective (49 page)
St Mary's Home (Hospital),
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Aquarium,
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Clifton,
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Bristol Daily Post
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Bristol Mercury
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Brown, Hannah,
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Brunei, Isambard Kingdom,
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Buckingham Palace,
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Buckinghamshire,
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Bucknill, Charles,
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-5,
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Burlington House,
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Burne-Jones, Edward,
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Burns, Robert,
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Butcher, Chief Superintendent,
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Buxted,
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Cain and Abel,
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Calne,
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Camberwell,
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-5,
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Cambridge Zoological Museum,
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cameras, see photography
Canada,
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Carlyle, Thomas,
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Cams, Dr,
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Cenci, Beatrice,
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
,
51
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Chandler, Raymond,
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Charbury,
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Charlie, Bonnie Prince,
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Cheshire,
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Chesterton, G.K.,
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children: criminal,
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illegitimate,
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Chile,
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Chippenham,
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Church of England,
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Civil Service Gazette
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Clapton,
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Clark, Henry,
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-51,
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Cockburn, John,
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Coleridge, John Duke,
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-50,
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The Moonstone
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-8,
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The Woman in White
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'The Diary of Anne Rodway',
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'Mad Monkton',
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No Name
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Armadale
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Colne, river,
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Conan Doyle, Arthur,
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n,
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n,
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constables,
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Convent de la Sagesse,
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Cork,
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Court of Arches,
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Covent Garden,
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Cowper, William,
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Cox, Sarah,
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denies guilt,
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and nightdress,
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-40,
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and examination of Constance Kent,
153
and examination of Gough,
185
and discovery of shift,
202
and Constance Kent's confession,
237
marriage,
237
Crawley, Rev.
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Cresswell, Sir Cresswell,
263
Crichton-Browne, James,
244
Criminal Investigation Department,
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crinolines,
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Cross, Richard,
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Crowthorne,
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Croydon,
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Crystal Palace,
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Cunningham, Sarah,
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Daily Telegraph
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Dallimore, Eliza,
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and examination of Gough,
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and discovery of shift,
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Dallimore, PC William,
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Dalton, Mr,
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'Dancing School',
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Dann, Inspector,
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Darwin, Charles,
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Davies, Rev. James,
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de Quincey, Thomas,
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Denbigh,
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detective fiction,
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see also
Collins, Wilkie
Dickens, Charles
Poe, Edgar Allan
'sensation' novels
detectives: demeanour of,
52
methods of,
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hunches,
82
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sagacity,
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'sleuths',
96
and psychoanalysis,
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and image on retina,
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and confessions,
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French,
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and astronomers,
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etymology,
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tricks,
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public obsession with,
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and rewards,
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female amateurs,
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press disillusion with,
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private inquiry agents,
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,
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reliance on good fortune,
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and testimony and proof,
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impact of Road Hill case,
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range of types,
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corruption among,
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Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
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Devizes gaol,
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magistrates,
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Diary of an Ex-Detective
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Dickens, Charles,
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, and detectives,
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Bleak House
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-8,
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'Hunted Down',
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Great Expectations
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theory on Road Hill case,
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death,
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dinosaurs,
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Disraeli, Benjamin,
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Dr Kahn's Museum,
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doctors, and mental illness,
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dog, Newfoundland,
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Dublin,
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Dublin Review
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Ducker, Miss,
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and Slack inquiry,
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and Constance Kent's confession,
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Durkin, Superintendent,
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East Grinstead, St Swithun's church,
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Ebury, Lord,
241
Eden, Emily,
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Edgware Road,
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Edinburgh
Daily News
,
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Elephant & Castle,
252
Eliot, George,
270
Elizabeth I, Queen,
176
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
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Epsom,
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Euston Square station,
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Evans, Mrs,
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eyes, and detection,
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Factory Act,
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Farrer, Mr,
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Female Detective, The
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Field, Detective-Inspector Charley,
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Fielding, Henry,
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Finsbury Square,
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Flaubert, Gustave,
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Foley, Superintendent John,
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leads investigation,
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works with Whicher,
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and Samuel Kent's obstruction,
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-8,
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and discovery of shift,
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and Road Hill auction,
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death,
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Folkestone, Lord,
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Forrester, Andrew,
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France,
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Franz, Johann Karl,
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Frith, William,
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Frome,
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and Samuel Kent's unpopularity,
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accounts of Road Hill case,
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and criticisms of Whicher,
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and Constance Kent rumour,
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Fulham gaol,
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Gaskell, Elizabeth,
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Gay, Mr,
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Gee, William,
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Gerstenberg, Wilhelm,
214
Gladstone, William,
280
Glamis, Lady,
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Globe,
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Gloucester,
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Gloucester Terrace,
144
Goff, Charles,
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Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de,
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Good, Daniel,
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Gough, Elizabeth,
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