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In 1860 a three-year-old boy was found murdered at Road Hill House, a country house in Wiltshire, and Jonathan Whicher, one of the first detectives of Scotland Yard, was sent to investigate. Kate Summerscale reconstructs the case, the family at its heart and the public fascination with detection that it fed.

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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (Winners)
The Baillie Gifford Prize is the UK’s leading award for non-fiction, open to books in current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography and the arts. Founded in 1999 as the Samuel Johnson Prize, its winners run from Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad and Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher to Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk and Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain. This list collects the winning books by year.

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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

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