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Shelf life: Looking at secular books

This is not a work of fiction, though its title and dust jacket suggest as much. Instead, it is a brilliantly written examination of one of the 19th century’s most notorious murders.

Secular Shelf Life Sarah Allen

THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER
or The Murder of Road Hill House
By Kate Summerscale. Bloomsbury. 360 pages. £14.99
ISBN 978-0-74758-205-1