by Kate Summerscale · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264048950
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«L'affaire de Road Hill House» is Kate Summerscale's true crime essay, published by 10 X 18 in paperback (528 pages, in French).
In the summer of 1860, the murder of Saville Kent, a three-year-old boy, at Road Hill House shocked Victorian England and triggered unprecedented media coverage. Kate Summerscale reconstructs the investigation by detective Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, and shows how the case exposed the secrets of a respectable family and anticipated the genre of criminal non-fiction.
The original work «The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective», translated into French by Eric Chédaille, won the British Book Award and the Baillie Gifford Prize.
For true crime and Victorian history readers interested in real crimes and the birth of sensationalist journalism.
Kate Summerscale is an English writer and journalist. She is best known for the bestselling narrative nonfiction books The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which was made into a television drama, The Wicked Boy and The Haunting of Alma Fielding. She has won a number of literary prizes, including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction in 2008.
