The butler didn’t do it
Bee Wilson: The First Detectives, 19 June 2008
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House
by Kate Summerscale.
Bloomsbury, 334 pp., £14.99, April 2008,978 0 7475 8215 1 Show More
by Kate Summerscale.
Bloomsbury, 334 pp., £14.99, April 2008,
“... separate out the thread from the ball – rather than gather it up as Theseus had done. In David Copperfield, Mr Wickfield tells David he will ‘unravel’ a clue. In Great Expectations, Dickens refers to a napkin being wielded like a ‘magic clew’, leading ‘the way upstairs’. In The Moonstone, Gabriel ... ”