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• Macavity Award Nominee for Best Nonfiction/Critical (2009)
• Anthony Award Nominee for Best Critical Nonfiction (2009)
• Agatha Award Nominee for Best Nonfiction (2008)
• Galaxy British Book Awards for Book of the Year (2009)
• Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime (2009)
• Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2008)
• ALCS Dagger for Non-fiction Nominee (2008)

It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent family's elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder - the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day, arrives at Road to track down the killer, the murder provokes national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealously, loneliness and loathing.This true story has all the hallmarks of a classic gripping murder mystery. A body, a detective, a country house steeped in secrets and a whole family of suspects - it is the original Victorian whodunnit.~from the back cover

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