The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

The

SUSPICIONS

of

MR WHICHER

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

The Queen of Whale Cay

The

SUSPICIONS

of

MR WHICHER

or THE MURDER at ROAD HILL HOUSE

KATE SUMMERSCALE

To my sister, Juliet

'Do you feel an uncomfortable heat at the pit of your

stomach, sir? and a nasty thumping at the top of your head?

Ah! not yet? It will lay hold of you . . . I call it the

detective-fever'

From The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins

CONTENTS

    Introduction

    Family Tree

    List of Characters

    A Note on Money

    Prologue

PART ONE: THE DEATH

    1 To See What We Have Got to See

    2 The Horror and Amazement

    3 Shall Not God Search This Out?

PART TWO: THE DETECTIVE

    4 A Man of Mystery

    5 Every Clue Seems Cut Off

    6 Something in Her Dark Cheek

    7 Shape-Shifters

    8 All Tight Shut Up

    9 I Know You

  10 To Look at a Star by Glances

  11 What Games Goes On

  12 Detective-Fever

  13 A General Putting of This and That Together by the Wrong End

  14 Women! Hold Your Tongues!

PART THREE: THE UNRAVELLING

  15 Like a Crave

  16 Better She Be Mad

  17 My Love Turned

  18 Surely Our Real Detective Liveth

  19 Fairy-Lands of Fact

  20 The Music of the Scythe on the Lawn Outside

  Afterword

  Notes

  List of Illustrations