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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1747896.The_Suspicions_of_Mr_Whicher_Murder_and_the_Undoing_of_a_Great_Victorian_Detective?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1187706077m/1747896.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1747896.The_Suspicions_of_Mr_Whicher_Murder_and_the_Undoing_of_a_Great_Victorian_Detective?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11166.Kate_Summerscale">Kate Summerscale</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24538654?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>I was really impressed by the writing in this book. The author gave all of the facts, but she didn't truly assign any feeling or direction to the thoughts. You were able to decide on your own whether Mr. Whicher was right with his assumptions, or if he was just being crazy and overworked. She also referenced several mystery/detective fiction books that were influenced by this crime, and she noted that Dickens and Poe weaved details of this story into several of their books (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Murders in the Rue Morgue). It was interesting, mostly because it was true. In a sense, even though a family member was sentenced for the crime, the crime was never solved to satisfaction. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/900559?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>