A-pier-ition

Alice Smith will never forget her honeymoon by the seaside, after she killed her young husband on their honeymoon wedding night at a swish hotel in Blackpool. She got away with murder that night, but she didn't get away from her nightmares. 5 years later, still guilt ridden she goes back to face her demons...literally. The story originates from a true crime famously known back in the day as the ‘Brides in the Bath Murders’, conducted by the bigamist and murderer, George Joseph Smith. There are so many synchronicity’s with myself in the real world with this true life story, that I was compelled to write my screenplay with fictional characters that are meant to be distant family members of the murderer George Smith and the victim of one of his murders Alice Burnham, whom he drowned in a bath at a bed and breakfast in Blackpool. Now I grew up, in my childhood, in Weymouth in Dorset. I joined the Royal Navy and had my last draft on HMS Invincible which was stationed in Portsmouth, then I married, bought a house and moved to live in Blackpool Lancashire after I left the Fleet Air Arm. George Joseph Smith had links to all three towns, and being partial to a good paranormal story, I was impelled to write this supernatural Horror thriller. My characters the protagonist Alice, a distant relative of and perhaps the illegitimate child of her great grandfather George Joseph Smith. The antagonist ,her Husband George, a descendant from a great Aunt Called Alice Burnham. Nobody knows how these two lives became intertwined, was it fate, co-incidence or did Alice find out her past history and inadvertently doing an ancestry check find her would be husband through her lineage and family tree. What forces were at play that compelled Alice to groom her victim to marry her so she could exact a revenge on her great grandfathers execution? But what made her go back to Blackpool where they honey mooned, and where her husband met his grisly and gruesome end. The folklore of missing persons of those who go for a swim of one of Blackpool’s 3 piers and never return, and the so called sea monster that is said to be claiming the lives of those unfortunate swimmers bathing in Blackpool’s shallow waters and 7 miles of sandy beaches. Is Alice guilt ridden of her actions that killed her husband in the same manner her great grandfather had killed his victims, is this why she came back to her crime scene, the one where she had gotten away with murder? It’s not always nice to be beside the seaside, where the brass bands once played, and what is it that lies in wait for its victims in the shallow waters just of Blackpool’s promenade and Piers. What is the relationship of the young canadian hotel Porter called Mark with the story, well that might be going back to George Joseph Smith’s only legitimate marriage to Caroline Thornhill on the 26th January 1898, who after serving time in prison fled to Canada. Is Mark a descendant from Caroline’s children from another man whilst living in Canada, and why did Mark come back to the UK, did he know about his families history and was also looking for retribution to his great grand mothers murky past?