The Murder of Harriet Monckton - Softcover

Haynes, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191240804X ISBN 13: 9781912408047

Verlag: MYRIAD ED, 2019

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"A thoroughly absorbing whodunnit, with an unexpected conclusion. Haynes' novel is also a touching portrait of a young woman unjustly stigmatised by the prejudices of her day." The Sunday Times "Fans of The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher will love this novelisation of a real-life murder that shocked the inhabitants of a small Kentish town." Red 'Ten Books to Read this Autumn

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`The truth is there was not one Harriet, but two: the girl you knew and loved; and the other Harriet, the girl with the secrets; the girl you did not really know at all.' The Murder of Harriet Monckton is based on a true story that shocked and fascinated the nation. On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, twenty-three years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, is found murdered in the privy behind the dissenting chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The townsfolk are appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the autopsy reveals that Harriet was almost six months pregnant. Drawing on the original coroner's reports and true witness testimonies, Elizabeth Haynes builds a compelling picture of Harriet Monckton's final days through the eyes of those closest to her: her fellow teacher and companion, her would-be fiance, her seducer, and her former landlord and lover. All are suspects. Each has a reason to want her dead.

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• Verlag: MYRIAD ED
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 191240804X
• ISBN 13: 9781912408047
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448