BBC FOUR SAMUEL JOHNSON WINNER ANNOUNCED

“Absolutely riveting”account of 19th century detective wins the 10th Anniversary Prize

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale, a pacy analysis of a murder case in a Wiltshire country house in 1860 which inspired detective genre writers including Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, was tonight named the winner of the BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008.  The author, Kate Summerscale, the tenth winner of the Prize, wins £30,000.

This is the second win in a row for publisher Bloomsbury whose startling account of Baghdad’s Green Zone, Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran won the 2007 Prize.

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