The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

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.