The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher Av Kate Summerscale

Summer 1860, an elegant country house, a young boy is found dead in an outside privy. All clues point towards the murderer being a member of the grieving household. But which one?Called to the scene is the most celebrated detective of his day, Jonathan Whicher from Scotland Yard.Faced with an inept local police force, a middle-class family ravaged by secrets, and a lack of evidence, will he be able to solve the case?This original Victorian whodunit becomes a battle of wits between the professional detective and the only one who knows what really happened. In this fresh re-telling, fact and fiction bleed into each other, and the Truth becomes something to be fought over. Alexandra Wood's stage adaptation of Kate Summerscale's vivid and gripping bestselling non-fiction thriller, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, is premiered at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, in May 2023.