A review by bookwoman1967
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale

2.0

Those Victorians were weird. They could have used a shrink. Most of the book is about their psychological reaction to murders and detectives, and how this is reflected in literature of the time. The part about the actual murder and its investigation and the follow-up is interesting, the other not so much. The author's theory of the actual solution to the murder is only presented in the epilogue! I think if the author had left the psychobabble and literary analysis to the minimum she would have had a much better, although significantly shorter, book.