[bksvol-discuss] Submitted/mystery

  • From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 10:39:10 -0400

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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