A review by angus_mckeogh
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

2.0

Another one of those disappointments probably based around my overly high expectations. I love historical mystery and stories. I find detection and true crime pretty engaging. But I guess this book just had elements of all of these but none of them were in depth and fleshed out. It ended up being much more about the Detective Whicher as opposed to the crime that was being solved. And with a fairly extensive lack of forensics most of his suppositions were based on guesswork and the "physical attributes of a criminal" which was not that interesting. Sort of like reading a book about phrenology. No basis in fact and the background not so intriguing.