[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submitted/mystery
- From: "john.falter" <john.falter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:12:28 -0400
Hi Deborah:
I've started proofing:
"The Butcher of Smithfield: Chaloner's third Exploit in Restoration London"
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From: Deborah Murray
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Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 10:39 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted/mystery
Hi all,
I've just submitted for proofing "The Butcher of Smithfield: Chaloner's third
Exploit in Restoration London" by Susanna Gregory.
It's been read and spell-checked. All headers stripped, page numbers/chapter
titles present, all fonts adjusted.
503 pages.
Description:
Thomas Chaloner, just returned from a clandestine excursion to Spain and
Portugal on behalf of the Queen, finds London dank and grey under leaden skies.
Although he has only been away for a short while, he finds many things
changed, including the government slapping a tax on printed newspapers.
Handwritten news reports escape the duty, and the rivalry between the producers
of the two conduits of news is the talk of the coffeehouses, with the battle to
be first with any sort of intelligence escalating into violent rivalry. And it
seems that a number of citizens who have eaten cucumbers have come to untimely
deaths. It is such a death which Chaloner is despatched to investigate; that
of a lawyer with links to "the Butcher of Smithfield," a shady trader
surrounded by a fearsome gang of thugs who terrorize the streets well beyond
the confines of Smithfield market. Chaloner doesn't believe that either this
death or the others are caused by a simple vegetable, but to prove his theory
he has to untangle the devious means of how news is gathered and he has to put
his personal safety aside as he tries to penetrate the rumor mill surrounding
the Butcher of Smithfield and discover his real identity.
Deborah
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