So there's no question but I will add my voice to the chorus of praise (and a hefty prize) for author Kate Summerscale. For my tastes, "Mr. Whicher" combines the best of both worlds: densely documented non-fiction and a 19th century ...
However.....the real details that I absolutely LOVED were the constant references that Summerscale made to the sensational novelists of the time - and their works: Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone and The ...
Summerscale shows the influences of this case, as well as other Victorian true crimes, on such famous novelists as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. .... Assassination Vacation by Sara Vowell; 56. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie; 55. French Milk by Lucy Knisley; 54. Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie; 53. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson; 52. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld ? 51. ...
