Kate Summerscale - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - A Shocking Murder And The Undoing Of A Great Victorian Detective

corals, 271-2, 285, 287

Cork, 248

Court of Arches, 133

Covent Garden, 227

Cowper, William, 176

Cox, Sarah, 3-4, 7-8, 12, 14, 31, 33, 63

denies guilt, 20

and nightdress, 26, 28, 32, 101, 138-40, 183

gives evidence, 28-9, 139

and examination of Constance Kent, 153

and examination of Gough, 185

and discovery of shift, 202

and Constance Kent's confession, 237

marriage, 237

Crawley, Rev. 118

Cresswell, Sir Cresswell, 263

Crichton-Browne, James, 244

Criminal Investigation Department, 277

crinolines, 140n

Cross, Richard, 279-80

Crowthorne, 83

Croydon, 265

Crystal Palace, 109

Cunningham, Sarah, 166

Daily Telegraph , 88, 170, 175, 227, 232, 234, 248-9

Dallimore, Eliza, 23-4, 28, 33-4, 35

and examination of Gough, 186-8

and discovery of shift, 202

Dallimore, PC William, 23, 35, 186, 196-7

Dalton, Mr, 164

'Dancing School', 66

Dann, Inspector, 172

Darwin, Charles, 86, 142, 216, 221, 271, 294

Davies, Rev. James, 241-2

de Quincey, Thomas, 55

Denbigh, 271

detective fiction, 52-3, 75, 88, 157, 168, 223, 267-9, 276, 303-4

see also Collins, Wilkie

Dickens, Charles

Poe, Edgar Allan

'sensation' novels

detectives: demeanour of, 52

and clues, 68-9, 138, 141-2

methods of, 82-9

hunches, 82-3

sagacity, 95-6

'sleuths', 96

and psychoanalysis, 103-4

and image on retina, 112

and confessions, 119-20

French, 125

solitude of, 139-40, 223

and astronomers, 142

social status, 146, 175

etymology, 157-8

tricks, 161n

public obsession with, 168

and rewards, 175

female amateurs, 187-8

press disillusion with, 190-1

private inquiry agents, 198, 263, 266

reliance on good fortune, 216

and testimony and proof, 216

impact of Road Hill case, 222-3

range of types, 277

corruption among, 277

Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette , 102, 110, 112, 175, 211

Devizes gaol, 119, 129-31, 147, 154, 235-6, 240, 247, 254

Devonshire, 71, 73, 93, 102, 296

magistrates, 252

Diary of an Ex-Detective , 139

Dickens, Charles, 79, 162, 267, and detectives, xx-xxii, 44, 50, 52, 83, 96, 120, 142, 198

The Mystery of Edwin Drood , xi, 272-3, 301

Bleak House , 1, 53, 84, 87, 105, 141, 157-8, 187-8, 218

'Hunted Down', 85

Great Expectations , 106

theory on Road Hill case, 190, 207, 272

death, 272

Dinan, 209, 211, 223, 288

dinosaurs, 286

Disraeli, Benjamin, 279

divorce courts, 198, 263

Dr Kahn's Museum, 106

doctors, and mental illness, 80-1

Doel, Emily, 4-5, 10, 128

dog, Newfoundland, 7-9, 12, 66, 107

Dorset, 166, 278

Drake, Sarah, 133-6, 138, 146

Dublin, 241

Dublin Review , 223

Ducker, Miss, 207

Dunn, William, 129-30, 148, 155

and Slack inquiry, 182-3

and Constance Kent's confession, 234-5

Durkin, Superintendent, 231

East Coulston, 32, 73

East Grinstead, St Swithun's church, 278

Ebury, Lord, 241

Eden, Emily, 168

Edgware Road, 69

Edinburgh, 69, 96, 222

Edinburgh Daily News , 270

Edlin, Peter, 148-57, 175, 254

Elephant & Castle, 252

Eliot, George, 270

Eliot, T.S., xi, 269

Elizabeth I, Queen, 176

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 38

Epsom, 54

Essex, 55, 72, 252n

Eton, 190, 229

Euston Square station, 135

Evans, Mrs, 263

Exeter, 72, 102

eyes, and detection, 112

Factory Act, 61

Farrer, Mr, 164

Female Detective, The , 161n

Field, Detective-Inspector Charley, 53-5, 69-70, 96, 162, 263, 277

Fielding, Henry, 96

Finsbury Square, 71

fishing, 5, 8, 61, 129

Flaubert, Gustave, 296

Foley, Superintendent John, 13, 43, 127, 154, 172, 177, 257

leads investigation, 20-2, 24-8, 31, 33-5, 80

works with Whicher, 59, 61-2, 64, 95, 118

and Samuel Kent's obstruction, 107-8, 184

and discovery of shift, 196-7, 202-3

and Road Hill auction, 209-10

death, 232

Folkestone, Lord, 236

Forrester, Andrew, 68, 97, 187-8, 216

France, 209

Franz, Johann Karl, 212-16

Freud, Sigmund, 85, 103, 259

Fricker, James, 4, 23, 194

Frith, William, xix

Frome, 33, 60, 101, 119, 148, 196, 198, 210, 235, 240

Frome, river, 33, 60, 63, 99, 159

Frome Times , 29, 106

and Samuel Kent's unpopularity, 61, 101

accounts of Road Hill case, 117, 119, 143, 157, 169

and criticisms of Whicher, 174

and Saunders' inquiry, 195, 198

and Constance Kent rumour, 207

Fulham gaol, 280

Gagg, John Edmund, 180-1, 232

Gaskell, Elizabeth, 68

Gay, Mr, 123n

Gee, William, 167

Gerstenberg, Wilhelm, 214

Gladstone, William, 280

Glamis, Lady, xix

Glasgow, 104, 252

Globe, 169

Gloucester, 185

Gloucester Terrace, 144

Gloucestershire, 137, 241

Goff, Charles, 51

Gollop, Harriet, 144-5, 235

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de, 216

Good, Daniel, 50-1

Gough, Elizabeth, 3-4, 6-8, 14, 100, 124, 130

discovers child missing, 9-12, 87

testimony about blanket, 18, 20, 34, 128, 149, 184, 188

interviewed and searched, 22-4, 33

kisses corpse, 25-6, 31

gives evidence, 28-9, 116, 118, 139

and Constance Kent, 30-1, 35, 149

suspicion of, 34-5, 80, 86, 126-9, 145-6, 164-6, 169-70

apprehended, 34-7, 43

reexamined and released, 61-2

character, 129

and insanity, 137

as object of sexual fantasy, 146

leaves Kent family's employ, 181

re-arrested and examined, 183-8

continuing suspicion of, 189-90, 200-1, 242

and Constance Kent's confession, 235-7

fund established for, 253;

marriage, 262

Gough, Sarah, 136

Governess Life , 145-6

Gray, Amy, 267, 276

Gray's Inn Road, 49

Gream, Katharine, 227, 232, 234-5, 238-9, 253, 262

Great Barrier Reef, 285, 287

Great Exhibition, 109

Great Western Railway, xix, xxiii

Green, Elizabeth ( nee Harding), 56, 262

Greenacre, James, 69

Greenhill, Joseph, 14

Grey, Sir George, 240, 253

Griffiths, Major Arthur, 277-9

Groser, Albert, 86, 181

Guildford, 165

Hall, Ann, 13, 19

Halliday, Mary, 212-15

Hamburg, 212

Hampshire, 265, 286-7

Handcock, Chief Superintendent John, 123, 201

Hanover Square, 167

hansom cabs, 48

Harcourt, Sir William Vernon, 280-1

Hardy, Thomas, 296

Harris, Mrs, 232

Harris, Superintendent, 232, 234

Hatch, Rev., 122-3

Hatherill, Louisa, 124, 153, 241, 248

Havana, 74, 290

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 176

Hayward, W.S., 187

Heenan, John, 124

Henry, Sir Thomas, 227-32

Herbert, Frederick, 97

Heritage, Ann, 13, 20

Heritage, PC Henry, 13, 21, 108

Hobart, 283, 288

Holborn, 46, 48-9, 57, 79, 119, 121-3

Holcombe, James, 4-5, 8-10, 12-13, 26, 101

Holcombe, Mary, 15, 24

Holley, Hester, 5, 28, 31, 33, 129, 138-9, 153, 167, 171, 237

Holley, Martha, 28, 31-2, 237

Holliwell, James, 267

Holliwell, Sarah, 161, 267, 276

Holloway, 240

Holmes, Sherlock, see Conan Doyle, Arthur

Holywell Street, 161-3, 225, 267

Home Office, 33, 39, 51, 74n, 166, 270

homes and families, Victorian, 37-8, 99, 109-11, 156-7, 220

Hood, Edwin Paxton, 242

Horsemonger Lane gaol, 181

House of Commons, 173, 225, 241

House-hold Words, xxi, 146

Hughes, William, 208

Hull, 214

Hunter Place station house, 47, 57