The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

Samuel Kent, circa 1863

The second Mrs Kent, circa 1863

Sketch of Elizabeth Gough in 1860

Constance Kent, circa 1858

Edward Kent, early 1850s

Mary Ann Windus in 1828, a year before she became the first Mrs Kent

Road Hill House, front view

Road Hill House, back view, with the drawing-room windows to the right

Engraving of Road Hill House in 1860, bird's-eye view

Engraving of Road Hill House in 1860, back view

Adolphus 'Dolly' Williamson, police detective, in the 1880s

Richard Mayne, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, in the 1840s

A view of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, in the mid-nineteenth century

The centre of Trowbridge in the late nineteenth century

Gravestone in East Coulston churchyard, Wiltshire