The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

Oliphant, Margaret, 222

Oliver, Daniel, 4, 9, 18

Once a Week, 191

Orton, Arthur (the Tichborne Claimant), 265–7

Oswestry, 234

Oxford, xxi, 53, 180, 229

Oxford Movement, 224

Oxford Street, 106

Paddington station, xix–xx, xxiii, 136, 161, 181, 188, 232

Palmer, Sir Roger, 50

Palmerston, Lord, 182

Paris, 55, 69

Park Lane, 50

Parkhurst prison, 278

Parramatta, 289

Parsons, Joshua, 6, 19–21, 78–80, 177, 240, 257

    and post-mortem, 24–5, 79–80, 167

    and coroner's inquest, 29, 31

    and Constance Kent's insanity, 33, 80, 102

    his suspicions, 79–80

    and examination of Constance Kent, 152–3

    defends Samuel Kent, 190

    and discovery of shift, 197

    and Constance Kent's confession, 235

Parsons, Letitia, 79

Parsons, Samuel, 78

Peacock, Rev. Edward, 14, 19, 61, 127, 184

    and coroner's inquest, 27, 29, 31

Pearce, James, 55, 120

pearls, 286–7

Pearman, Mr, 210

Peck, PC, 213–14

Peel, Sir Robert, 136

Pegler, PC, 69

Penny Illustrated Paper, 261

Perth, 285, 289

photography, xx, 285

phrenology, 88

physiognomy, 84–6

Pimlico, 161, 225, 235

Piper, Charlotte, see Whicher, Charlotte

Plummer, Eugenia, 122–3

Plummer, Stephanie, 122

Plymouth, 69

Poe, Edgar Allan, xxii, 88, 174, 188, 190, 216, 269

    'Murders in the rue Morgue', xi, 53, 138, 142, 168

    'The Tell–Tale Heart', 85

    'The Man of the Crowd', 208

police: nicknames, 45–6, 52

    uniforms, 46

    personality and temperament, 46–7