McKay wrote the first of these, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder In Angel Lane, which was filmed in early 2013 and was broadcast on. Subsequent TV episodes are fictionalised accounts of Whicher's career as a private enquiry agent. The first film, The Murder at Road Hill House (broadcast in 2011), was based on the real-life Constance Kent murder case of 1860, as interpreted by Kate Summerscale in her 2008 book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House, which was the winner of Britain's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008, and was read as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in April the same year. It stars Paddy Considine in the title role of detective inspector Jack Whicher of the Metropolitan Police. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is a British series of television films made by Hat Trick Productions for ITV, written by Helen Edmundson and Neil McKay.
In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life.The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery - a body a detective a country house steeped in secrets. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment. The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing - arouses fear and a kind of excitement. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects.
Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. At some point after midnight a dog barks. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet.
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