Kate Summerscale

From the Edgar Award-winning author of The Haunting of Alma Fielding, the tale of two journalists competing to solve the notorious Christie murders in postwar London.

Born in 1900 to a promiscuous American oil heiress and a British army captain, Marion Barbara Carstairs realised very early on that she was not like most little girls....

Kate Summerscale has uncovered a fascinating true story of murder and morality. It is not just a meticulous examination of a shocking Victorian case but also a compelling account of its aftermath....

In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher....

Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden.

Kate Summerscale brilliantly recreates the Victorian world, chronicling in exquisite detail the life of Isabella Robinson, wherein the longings of a frustrated wife collided with a society clinging to rigid ideas....

The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals)....

In The Wicked Boy, Kate Summerscale has uncovered a fascinating true story of murder and morality ....

Our fears and compulsions often feel like part of our deepest selves—yet they're bound up in the currents of the world around us. This thrilling compendium of 99 phobias and manias, rare and familiar, delves into the obsessions that shape us all....

This fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it - won of the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction....

Saville’s corpse, already stiff, was laid on a table beneath the kitchen window; upstairs the shape of his sleeping self was still indented on the sheets and pillow of the cot....

Bloomsbury presents Mrs Robinson's Disgrace by Kate Summerscale, read by Stephanie Racine....