| The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | |
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 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher DVD cover | |
| Based on | The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale |
| Written by | Helen Edmundson Neil McKay |
| Starring | Paddy Considine Tim Pigott-Smith William Beck Nancy Carroll |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 4 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Production company | Hat Trick Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 25 April 2011 – 14 September 2014 |
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is a British series of television films made by Hat Trick Productions for ITV, written by Helen Edmundson and Neil McKay. It stars Paddy Considine in the title role of detective inspector Jack Whicher of the Metropolitan Police.[1] The first film, The Murder at Road Hill House (broadcast in 2011), was based on the real-life Constance Kent murder case of 1860,[2] as interpreted by Kate Summerscale in her 2008 book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House, which was the winner of Britain's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008,[3] and was read as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in April the same year.[4]
Subsequent TV episodes are fictionalised accounts of Whicher's career as a private inquiry agent. McKay wrote the first of these, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder In Angel Lane, which was filmed in early 2013 and was broadcast on 12 May 2013. It was followed by two episodes written by Edmundson, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Beyond the Pale, broadcast on 7 September 2014, and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Ties that Bind, broadcast on 14 September 2014. Considine later announced on Twitter that the show would not be continuing.[5]
- ^ The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher on the Paddy Considine website
- ^ "The Road Hill Murder". The Ballarat Star. 20 November 1953. Retrieved 1 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Kate Summerscale Wins U.K.'s 30,000-Pound Samuel Johnson Prize" – Bloomberg.com, 15 July 2008
- ^ "Book of the Week: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher". BBC Radio 4 Programmes. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
- ^ Mr. Whicher will not be returning... Considine's tweet, 13 October 2014