![]() Inevitably, much of the breadth and detail of the original was lost in reducing The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (ITV1) to two hours, or 100 minutes if you don't count the ad breaks perhaps, surprisingly though, it gained a lot in drama. ![]() K ate Summerscale's 2008 prize-winning book about the Road Hill House murder of three-year-old Saville Kent was as much an examination of a Victorian cause célèbre that challenged traditional assumptions about middle-class values and the purity of childhood and turned detectives into public figures (Jack Whicher was the inspiration for Inspector Bucket in Bleak House and Sergeant Cuff in The Moonstone) as it was whodunnit. ![]()
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