WE ARE NOT ALONE: THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

Apparently everyone loves a good detective story and that includes the judges of the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.

They awarded the £30,000 prize to Kate Summerscale for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, a book about a sensational Victorian murder case. The case was made more fascinating by the presence of Detective Inspector Jack Whicher, one of only eight  detectives in England, who virtually invented detection as he went along, and became a model  for detective fiction.  

The Daily Telegraph article can be read here.