The Case of Constance Kent
About this audiobook
On the morning of 30 June 1860, young Francis Saville Kent, not yet four years old, was found to be missing from the family home, Road Hill House, in the village of Road in Wiltshire. A search was mounted, and the child’s body was soon found, wrapped in a blanket from his cot and stuffed into a privy in the grounds of the house. His throat had been cut to the bone by some sharp instrument.
After an inept investigation by the local police, the suspicions of Detective Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard fixed upon the victim’s half-sister Constance Kent, only sixteen at the time of the murder. Golden Age crime writer John Rhode re-examines the case through original reports and source material.
About the author
“John Rhode” was one of a number of pseudonyms used by British Golden Age crime novelist Cecil John Charles Street (1884–1964). Born in Gibraltar, Street served in the British Army as an artillery officer. He was wounded three times in combat and won the Military Cross. During World War I he worked as a propagandist for military intelligence. As a crime novelist, Street wrote many stand-alone novels, as well as three series, featuring mathematics professor Dr. Lancelot Priestley (writing as John Rhode); retired naval officer Desmond Merrion (as Miles Burton); and the Perrins Investigators (as Cecil Waye). In 1930, he was a founding member of The Detection Club, a group of prominent British mystery writers.
Graham Scott is a narrator and voice actor based in the UK. As well as solo performances of works by authors including PG Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, R Austin Freeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jules Verne, Anna Katherine Green, Joseph Conrad, GK Chesterton, Patricia Wentworth, A.E.W. Mason, and John Buchan, Graham is also a regular performer in group productions with both Voices of Today and The Online Stage. Website: GrahamScottAudio.com
