It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent family house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder. Even worse, the guilty party is surely one of their number - the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the mostcelebrated detective of his day, arrives to track down the killer, the murder provokes national hysteria.This true story is the original Victorian whodunit.