The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

Davies, Rev. James, 241–2

de Quincey, Thomas, 55

Denbigh, 271

detective fiction, 52–3, 75, 88, 157, 168, 223, 267–9, 276, 303–4

    see also Collins, Wilkie

    Dickens, Charles

    Poe, Edgar Allan

    'sensation' novels

detectives: demeanour of, 52

    and clues, 68–9, 138, 141–2

    methods of, 82–9

    hunches, 82–3

    sagacity, 95–6

    'sleuths', 96

    and psychoanalysis, 103–4

    and image on retina, 112

    and confessions, 119–20

    French, 125

    solitude of, 139–40, 223

    and astronomers, 142

    social status, 146, 175

    etymology, 157–8

    tricks, 161n

    public obsession with, 168

    and rewards, 175

    female amateurs, 187–8

    press disillusion with, 190–1

    private inquiry agents, 198, 263, 266

    reliance on good fortune, 216

    and testimony and proof, 216

    impact of Road Hill case, 222–3

    range of types, 277

    corruption among, 277

Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, 102, 110, 112, 175, 211

Devizes gaol, 119, 129–31, 147, 154, 235–6, 240, 247, 254

Devonshire, 71, 73, 93, 102, 296

    magistrates, 252

Diary of an Ex–Detective, 139

Dickens, Charles, 79, 162, 267, and detectives, xx–xxii, 44, 50, 52, 83, 96, 120, 142, 198

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood, xi, 272–3, 301

    Bleak House, 1, 53, 84, 87, 105, 141, 157–8, 187–8, 218

    'Hunted Down', 85

    Great Expectations, 106

    theory on Road Hill case, 190, 207, 272

    death, 272

Dinan, 209, 211, 223, 288

dinosaurs, 286

Disraeli, Benjamin, 279

divorce courts, 198, 263