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The case of the defective detective.(The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective)(Book review)

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From: American Scholar
Date: 20080322
Author:Peterson, Britt

THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective By Kate Summerscale, Walker, $24.95

"His eyes, of a steely light grey, had a very disconcerting trick, when they encountered your eyes, of looking as if they expected something more from you than you were aware of yourself," wrote Wilkie Collins, introducing Sergeant Cuff, the detective-hero of his 1868 suspense novel, The Moonstone. Arthur Conan Doyle would use similar language introducing Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1883): "His eyes were sharp and piercing ... and his thin, ...

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