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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher premiered in 2011 and starred Paddy Considine as Jonathan 'Jack' Whicher, a detective leading the investigation into a notorious child murder in the 1860s. The two-hour drama was an adaptation of Kate Summerscale's novel of the same name. A follow-up story, The Murder In Angel Lane was broadcast in May 2013 and saw Whicher working as a private inquiry agent having left the Metropolitan Police.
In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who was snatched from his bed at night and murdered.
When Mr. Whicher, a retired policeman, helps a country lady to find her niece, he is drawn into a disturbing case of murder which brings him up against wealthy and powerful figures and throws him into conflict with his former police colleagues.
Mr. Whicher is hired by former Home Secretary Sir Edward Shore to investigate the violent threats made against his son Charles, who has recently returned from India with his family.
A divorce case involving a landowner and his young wife spirals into something darker, drawing Mr. Whicher into the heart of the English countryside where he uncovers the most disturbing and destructive of secrets.