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ISBN: 978-0-8027-1535-7 (hardcover)
First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury in 2008
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INDEX
Adams, John Couch, 142
Adelphi theatre, 84
Albert, Prince, 217
All the Year Round, xxii, 125, 159, 267
Alloway, John, 4, 9–10, 12, 18
Alresford, 265
Annual Register, 106
aquaria, 273–4
Arabia, 96
Arundel, Lord, 264
Ascot, 56
Asmodeus, 158
Australia, 53, 263, 265, 291
William Kent in, 283–9
Constance Kent in, 288–90
Avon, river, 44
Axbridge, 164
Baily, Mr and Mrs, 151–2
Balaklava, 73
Baldwin, Mary, 122
ballads, broadside, 69, 251–2
banknotes, 69
baobab trees, 286
Barnes, Constance Amelia, 288
Barry, Sir Charles, 162
Bath, 137, 164, 167, 182, 198, 203, 207
Constance and William Kent's flight, 91–3, 95, 107, 143, 300–1
Greyhound Hotel, 91–2
police, 207–8
Bath Chronicle, 110
accounts of Road Hill case, 27–8, 34, 37, 60–1, 95, 97, 102, 111–12, 127, 130, 143, 159
and suspicion of Samuel Kent, 169–70
criticisms of Whicher, 174, 179
Bath Express, 93, 110, 116, 149, 169, 182
Battersea, 275
Baudelaire, Charles, 296
Baxter, Richard, 294
Baynton House, 73–4, 290, 293
Beckington, 4–5, 9, 19, 77–9, 137, 182, 236
Manor House school, 78, 143
Methodist chapel, 210
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 296
Beeton, Mrs Isabella, 74n, 296
Belgravia, 120
Benger, Thomas, 15–17, 22, 24, 29, 128, 237
Bennett, John, 52
Bennett, Thomas, 279
Bentham, Jeremy, 216
Berkshire, 82, 190
Bermondsey, 69, 105
Bethlehem asylum, 80
Bird, J.J., 137
Biss, river, 44
Blackall, Dr, 72
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 123
Blandford, 166
Bloemfontein, Bishop of, 280
Bloomsbury, 48–9
Bonwell, Rev. James, 55, 133, 181
Booth, John Wilkes, 253–4
Bow Street magistrates' court, 227–8, 234, 241, 254
Bowyer, Sir George, 173–4
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, Lady Audley's Secret, 217–18, 222, 225, 238, 243
Aurora Floyd, 222
Bradford–upon–Avon, 193, 198
Brighton, 227, 229, 241, 254, 258, 288
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
Brontë, 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, 188, 232
Church of England, 181, 224, 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, 252n
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 66n, 269, 276n, 30n
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, 140n
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, 161n
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, 129–31, 147, 154, 235–6, 240, 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