Hi,
My manuscript is on its fifth draft and I desperately need a second Beta reader to give me an honest opinion.
Is there anyone who would be kind enough to take a look at it.
Brief Synopsis of Penny a Corner :
The story takes place in a one year time span in 1692, and is based on a true story. It is named Penny a Corner because the accused maintained that he was playing the card game with friends in Chancery Lane on the night of the murder.
Henry Harrison a London gentleman, befriended Mistress Vanwicke, a widow. She borrowed money from a high society doctor, Doctor Clenche, who took a mortgage on her property. The money is not repaid and Doctor Clenche has her evicted and puts a tenant into the property. Mistress Vanwicke ends up in a debtors' prison in Wood Street, London, with her two children. Henry Harrison was heard to make threats against the doctor on more than one occasion. A maid observed that Harrison carried a handkerchief made of coarse material which she thinks is not fitting for a man of his quality and she became suspicious of him.
The doctor is murdered by two men in a coach, and all evidence points to Harrison but the second man is still at large. Harrison is tried at the Old Bailey and found guilty of murder and is hanged at Holborn in 1692, and he died protesting his innocence. Evidence used against him was the handkerchief, as the doctor was strangled with a piece of sea coal wrapped in a coarse handkerchief, which was found at the murder scene.
One of Harrison’s crucial witnesses, an apprentice shoemaker, was abducted by three soldiers one evening, after he had given evidence before the trial, to say that he would recognise Harrison by his voice.
After Harrison is hanged, another man, Master Miller, confesses on his deathbed, to his wife that he committed the murder of Doctor Clenche, and a second man is arrested and tried at the Old Bailey. Since a dead man is no evidence the second man is set free. The twist to the story is that two men dressed as soldiers were seen drinking in The Blue Boar tavern on the night of the murder (one of them was Miller), who had been absent from the tavern at the time of the murder.
Any volunteers please?
Barbara
My manuscript is on its fifth draft and I desperately need a second Beta reader to give me an honest opinion.
Is there anyone who would be kind enough to take a look at it.
Brief Synopsis of Penny a Corner :
The story takes place in a one year time span in 1692, and is based on a true story. It is named Penny a Corner because the accused maintained that he was playing the card game with friends in Chancery Lane on the night of the murder.
Henry Harrison a London gentleman, befriended Mistress Vanwicke, a widow. She borrowed money from a high society doctor, Doctor Clenche, who took a mortgage on her property. The money is not repaid and Doctor Clenche has her evicted and puts a tenant into the property. Mistress Vanwicke ends up in a debtors' prison in Wood Street, London, with her two children. Henry Harrison was heard to make threats against the doctor on more than one occasion. A maid observed that Harrison carried a handkerchief made of coarse material which she thinks is not fitting for a man of his quality and she became suspicious of him.
The doctor is murdered by two men in a coach, and all evidence points to Harrison but the second man is still at large. Harrison is tried at the Old Bailey and found guilty of murder and is hanged at Holborn in 1692, and he died protesting his innocence. Evidence used against him was the handkerchief, as the doctor was strangled with a piece of sea coal wrapped in a coarse handkerchief, which was found at the murder scene.
One of Harrison’s crucial witnesses, an apprentice shoemaker, was abducted by three soldiers one evening, after he had given evidence before the trial, to say that he would recognise Harrison by his voice.
After Harrison is hanged, another man, Master Miller, confesses on his deathbed, to his wife that he committed the murder of Doctor Clenche, and a second man is arrested and tried at the Old Bailey. Since a dead man is no evidence the second man is set free. The twist to the story is that two men dressed as soldiers were seen drinking in The Blue Boar tavern on the night of the murder (one of them was Miller), who had been absent from the tavern at the time of the murder.
Any volunteers please?
Barbara
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