![]() ![]() Within a year the case had destroyed his career. After a public outcry, Inspector Jonathan Whicher of Scotland Yard – the best man in the first detective squad in the English-speaking world – was sent to investigate. ![]() Though the child's killer was evidently a member of his household, the Wiltshire police proved unable to identify the culprit. In the summer of 1860 the murder of a three-year-old boy at his home in Wiltshire had created a national frenzy of suspicion and anxiety, an obsessive curiosity that Wilkie Collins dubbed "detective fever". W hen I first read about the Road Hill House murder, in a Victorian true-crime anthology in the London Library, I knew at once that I wanted to write about it. ![]()
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