The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder And The Undoing Of A Great Victorian Detective (49 page)

St Mary's Home (Hospital),
224
,
227
,
229
,
241
,
298

Aquarium,
273
-4

Brisbane,
284
,
289

Bristol,
91
-2,
123
,
125
,
201

Clifton,
148

Bristol Daily Post
,
27
,
95
,
112
,
119
,
143
,
183
,
185
,
193
-4,
198

Bristol Mercury
,
195

British Museum,
48
,
271
,
273

Bronte, Charlotte,
82
,
96

Jane Eyre,
72
,
102

Brown, Hannah,
69

Brunei, Isambard Kingdom,
xix

Buckingham Palace,
49

Buckinghamshire,
180

Bucknill, Charles,
244
-5,
252
,
256
,
258

Burlington House,
286

Burne-Jones, Edward,
229

Burns, Robert,
176

Butcher, Chief Superintendent,
278

Buxted,
288

Cain and Abel,
112

Calne,
191

Camberwell,
44
-5,
69
,
171
,
267
,
278

Cambridge Zoological Museum,
271

cameras, see photography

Canada,
288

Carlyle, Thomas,
105

Cams, Dr,
38

Cavanagh, Timothy,
121
,
163
,
211

Cenci, Beatrice,
176

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
,
51
-2

Chandler, Raymond,
304

Charbury,
123

Charlie, Bonnie Prince,
293

Cheshire,
164

Chesterton, G.K.,
272

children: criminal,
121
-3

illegitimate,
136

and murder,
233
,
244

Chile,
263

Chippenham,
xix
,
xxiii
,
180
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188
,
232

Church of England,
181
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224
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229
,
239
,
241
-2

Civil Service Gazette
,
29

Clapton,
71

Clark, Henry,
137
,
148
-51,
153
,
158
,
220
,
234

Cockburn, John,
262

Coleridge, John Duke,
248
-50,
253
,
266

Collins, Wilkie,
125
,
190
,
270

The Moonstone
,
xi
,
75
,
77
-8,
87
,
138
,
168
,
267
-9,
301

The Woman in White
,
xxii
,
41
,
68
,
81
,
102
,
105
,
138
,
159
,
182

'The Diary of Anne Rodway',
70

'Mad Monkton',
80

No Name
,
225

Armadale
,
263

Colne, river,
252
n

Conan Doyle, Arthur,
66
n,
269
,
276
n,
30
n

constables,
12

Convent de la Sagesse,
211

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,
140
n

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,
161
n

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
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129
-31,
147
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154
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-6,
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,
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
,
252
n

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
,
161
n

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,
123
n

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