'It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent family's elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder. Even worse, the guilty part is surely one of their own number - the house was bolted from the inside.
As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of the day, arrives at Road to track down the killer, the murder provokes national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of the respectable, middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing.
This true story has all the hallmarks of a classic gripping murder mystery. A body, a detective, a country house steeped in secrets and a whole family of suspects - it is the original Victorian whodunnit.'

I've been umm-ing and ah-ing over whether to get this one or not, and I when I found this copy (in good condition) for 79p in the Huntingdon branch of the Marie Curie Cancer charity shop this afternoon I threw caution to the wind and got it. Its had quite good reviews so as a long term fan of the murder mystery, not least of Anne Perry's fabulous Inspector Pitt novels, this should hopefully be a good read.

Read whilst on my National Trust Working Holiday.
I was looking forward to this one, because it had had good sound reviews and I do like this kind of book. However, after a fairly tedious start the book slowed to a crawl of funeral pace and I really only stuck it out to see whodunnit and why. And the 'reveal' wasn't that fascinating either. Oh well - off to Mt AVL you go!

Sent off to another UK Bookcrosser as a RABCK. Well, kind of a RABCK - I offered, she accepted and it went off in the post from Godmanchester Post Office on Saturday 29th August 2009.
Happy travels not so little book and happy reading RABCK'd one somewhere in Oxfordshire if I remember correctly...