A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by Kate Summerscale
appears in True Crime, Mystery & Crime, and History.
In June of 1860 threeyearold Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The suspicion that fell upon the grieving family and their servants horrified the public; the thought of what might go on behind the closed doors of respectable middleclass Victorian homes scheming governesses, rebellious children, insan...
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