Kate Summerscale è un'autrice inglese celebrata per le sue narrazioni storiche meticolosamente ricercate e avvincenti. Possiede un talento notevole nello scoprire storie affascinanti, spesso trascurate, e nel portarle vividamente alla luce attraverso la sua acuta sensibilità letteraria. Il lavoro di Summerscale approfondisce le complessità del passato, intrecciando abilmente resoconti fattuali con esplorazioni illuminanti della motivazione umana e delle dinamiche sociali. Il suo distintivo approccio narrativo invita i lettori a immergersi in intricati misteri storici, rivelando le correnti più profonde dell'esperienza umana.
'Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime' Val McDermid From Britain's top-selling true crime writer and author of Sunday Times #1 bestseller THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER... London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, th[Bokinfo].
A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
The extraordinary story of a 1930s ghost hunt, and the woman who confounded the world, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
De geheime liefde van een getrouwde Engelse vrouw voor een tien jaar jongere, getrouwde medisch student leidt in 1858 tot het eerste Britse echtscheidingsproces.
When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was 'fascinating', she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man's charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and she was to find it hard to shake...In one of the most notorious divorce cases of the nineteenth century, Isabella Robinson's scandalous secrets were exposed to the world. Kate Summerscale brings vividly to life a frustrated Victorian wife's longing for passion and learning, companionship and love, in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality.
Of de moord in Road Hill House - druk 5
Engeland, 1860. Een lijk, een detective, een afgelegen landhuis en een verdachte familie met veel geheimen. Jack Whicher, een gevierd detective van Scotland Yard, wordt naar Road Hill House gestuurd om de moord op de driejarige kleuter Saville kent te onderzoeken. Met hulp van een onervaren lokaal politieteam en zonder enig feitelijk bewijs staat hij voor een schijnbaar onmogelijke taak - een van de rouwende bewoners moet de dader zijn. De moord leidt tot nationale hysterie. De gedachte wat zich allemaal achter de gesloten deuren van zomaar een respectabele familie op het platteland kan afspelen - onbetrouwbare bedienden, opstandige kinderen, gekte, jaloezie, eenzaamheid en haat - maakt mensen angstig, maar zorgt ook voor opwinding. Iedereen heeft zijn eigen theorie over wie de moordenaar is. Net als detective Whicher. In De vermoedens van Mr. Whicher reconstrueert Kate Summerscale op minutieuze wijze de feiten achter deze gruwelijke zaak. Met haar levendige vertelstem en de buitengewoon intelligente manier waarop ze het mysterie langzaam ontrafelt, heeft ze een meesterlijk boek geschreven dat leest als een thriller.
Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
The dramatic story of a real-life murder that inspired modern detective fiction unfolds in June 1860 when three-year-old Saville Kent was discovered at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. This horrific crime shocked England and ignited a national obsession with detection, ultimately undermining the career of one of the greatest detectives of the time. At this point, the detective was a novel concept, with only eight in all of England, and rarely called beyond London. However, the shocking nature of the crime prompted Scotland Yard to dispatch its best investigator, Inspector Jonathan Whicher. Whicher quickly suspected that the murderer was someone within the family, but lacking sufficient evidence or a confession, he returned to London defeated. Although he would be vindicated five years later, Whicher's true legacy lies in the fictional detectives that emerged from his story—tough, quirky, and all-seeing figures like Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone and Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade. This provocative nonfiction work reads like a Victorian thriller, with a brilliantly layered narrative that is both cleverly constructed and beautifully written.
Una casa isolata. Un cane che abbaia nella notte. Un omicidio spietato. Un detective in borghese bravo a seguire le tracce e a far parlare gli indizi. Una verità che non si può accettare. Dodici persone vivono nella casa, una è la vittima, chi è il colpevole? È un giallo nella sua forma più pura, ma è anche un drammatico fatto di cronaca che dall'Inghilterra dell'Ottocento parla ancora oggi alle nostre coscienze. "Kate Summerscale combina scrupolose ricerche storiche con grande vivacità narrativa e talento per ricreare atmosfere di altri tempi. Il classico libro che, una volta iniziato, non si riesce più a lasciare". (The Observer) "Ciò che rende questo libro rigoroso profondamente sconvolgente è che, pur cercando di essere il più possibile obiettiva, Summerscale non si dimentica mai che in questa tragedia si sono giocate delle vite umane". (Les Inrockuptibles)
Joe Carstairs was born in London in 1900, the daughter of a Scottish colonel and an American heiress. She was educated in Connecticut and returned to Europe in 1916, to drive ambulances for the Women's Legion in France. She deserted her husband at the church door (marriage having been a prerequisite of her coming into her $4 million inheritance) and settled in England, where she took up motor-boat racing, winning many trophies, and established a boatyard at Cowes.
