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.
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