Detective Whicher & The Road Hill House Mystery

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 26 May 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The events that took place in the village of Road during the year 1860 would seem straight out of Victorian detective fiction. The characters played their roles as the family, the live in staff, the day staff and all with their own lives and their own secrets entwined inside the gated middle class household of Road House, one of them guilty of a shocking murder. With all its twists, turns and bombastic, final unravelling, the Murder of Road Hill House is the original whodunnit. Sources: Summerscale, Kate (2008) The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or: The Murder at Road Hill House. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009. Chambers, Paul (2009) Murder Most Foul: The Road Hill House Mystery of 1860. The History Press, 2009. Thomas, Hugh (2011) Occasional Papers on Meteorological History No.10, Weather and Phenological Observations At Hurstpierpoint 1859 to 1862. The Royal Meteorological Society, 2011. Foul and Mysterious Murder (1860, July 3), The Evening Standard, p.6. Diabolical and Mysterious Murder: Verdict fo Wilful Murder (1860, July 4), The Frome Times, p.4 The Morning Post (1860, July 10), The Morning Post, p.4 Arrest and Examination of Miss Constance Kent (1860, July 21), Bristol Times and Mirror, p.8. The Late Mysterious Child Murder at Road (1860, July 30), Belfast Mercury, p.4. Examination of Miss Kent on a Charge of Child Murder (1860, July 29), Reynolds Newspaper, p.9. The Road Murder (1860, August 2), Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, p.3. The Road Murder - Constance Kent Sentenced to Death (1865, July 27) Inverness Courier, p.6. For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/6f7e2pt Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:44.0	The events that took place in the village of Road during the year 1860 would seem straight out of Victorian
0:54.8	detective fiction. The characters played their roles as the family, the living
0:59.4	staff, the day staff, and all with their own lives and their own secrets entwined inside the gated middle-class household of Roadhouse.
1:08.5	One of them was guilty of a shocking murder.
1:12.1	With the little headway made by the local police, detectives were called
1:15.9	in from the relatively new detective branch of Scotland Yard. Lauded for their almost
1:21.0	superhuman abilities of perception and mistrusted for their almost superhuman abilities of perception and
1:23.4	mistrusted for their flirtations with practices that many deemed as
1:27.5	criminal as their folly, whilst at the same time laying bare the secrets of
1:31.8	their suspects for all to see eroding the highly valued
1:35.0	Victorian notion of privacy.
1:38.0	With all its twists, turns and bombastic final unraveling, the murderer of Road Hill House is the original who done it.
1:46.8	This is Dark Histories where the facts are worst and fiction.
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