The Murder of Harriet Monckton is based on an unsolved true crime.
Drawing on the original coroner\'s reports and witness testimonies, Elizabeth.
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.
On 7th November 1843, 23 year-old Harriet Monckton is found murdered in the privy behind the dissenting chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent.
The Murder of Harriet Monckton is based on an unsolved true crime