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Karl L Stenger, April 12, 2008

This page-turner proves that real life can be more suspenseful and gripping than fiction. Centering around one of the most infamous murders of the Victorian era, the book traces the career of Jonathan Whicher, one of the first and best known detectives in England. When three-year-old Saville Kent is viciously murdered, Detective-Inspector Whicher is dispatched by Scotland Yard to investigate. When his investigation, which concentrates on the boy's family and their servants, fails to procure a conviction, his promising career is derailed. The book not only turns readers into armchair detectives, it also provides a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of Victorian propriety and shows the effect the case had on the development of the detective in the novels of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins.

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