· The Murder of Harriet Monckton by Elizabeth Haynes review – a mesmerising Victorian crime novel. On November the 7th Harriet Monckton, a young woman of 23, was found dead in the privy of her local chapel in Bromley. She had consumed Reviews: 1. Haynes uses those uncertainties to create a fictional story that begins from the certain knowledge that on 6 November , Harriet Monckton took or was administered poison, died, and her body stowed in the privy behind the Congregational Chapel/5(). Haynes uses those uncertainties to create a fictional story that begins from the certain knowledge that on 6 November , Harriet Monckton took or was administered poison, died, and her body stowed in the privy behind the Congregational Chapel. When the next day she’s noted as missing, a search ensues/5().
The community is appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the surgeon reports that Harriet was around six months pregnant. Drawing on the coroner's reports and witness testimonies, Elizabeth Haynes builds a compelling picture of Harriet's final hours through the eyes of. by Elizabeth Haynes. On 7th November Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, was found murdered behind the chapel she had regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The community was appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic. The Murder of Harriet Monckton is exquisite - a haunting and compelling historical whodunnit. It's based on a Victorian crime, using original research materials to explore what happened to a young woman, Harriet Monckton, who was murdered with her unborn son. Reading this book felt like reading the script of an Agatha Christie movie.
Haynes uses those uncertainties to create a fictional story that begins from the certain knowledge that on 6 November , Harriet Monckton took or was administered poison, died, and her body stowed in the privy behind the Congregational Chapel. Here are my thoughts having read The Murder of Harriet Monckton by Elizabeth Haynes. The following is an exclusive excerpt from The Murder of Harriet Monckton, by Elizabeth Haynes. In charming Kent in , a twenty-three-year-old woman named Harriet Monckton is found dead behind the chapel she faithfully attended. The community is shocked. But she had ingested poison, and is revealed to have been pregnant. The verdict is murder.
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