Kate Summerscale
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
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London, 1895. For ten days, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his younger brother have been doing boy-type things: visiting the seaside, theatre, and cricket matches, ...Read Review
Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
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Isabella Robinson was a free-spirited young woman forced into a cold second marriage with an unpleasant, unfaithful man, Henry Robinson. She spends the ...Read Review
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
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In 1860 in England, a middle-class family’s three-year-old son disappears. After a brief search, he is found dead in an outdoor privy with ...Read Review
