The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder 2022028630, 2022028631, 9780385534260, 9780385534277

Boon Island : A True Story of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Cannibalism [1 ed.] 9780762790791, 9780762777525

The wreck of the Nottingham Galley on Boon Island and the resultant rumors of insurance fraud, mutiny, treason, and cann

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Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate 9781479813148

A swashbuckling tale of mutiny and murder illustrating the centrality of smuggling and slavery in early American society

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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary 9780141942049

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The Chankas and the Priest: A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru 0271071222, 9780271071220

How does society deal with a serial killer in its midst? What if the murderer is a Catholic priest living among native v

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The Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder 0759111499, 9780759111493, 9780759111608

This ethnographically based murder mystery, set in an Indian immigrant community in New York City, uses the main princip

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Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck 9780824894801

In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean–style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. Onboard w

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Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South 9780252090097, 0252090098

In Troubled Ground, Claude A. Clegg III revisits a violent episode in his hometown's history that made national hea

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The Poison Plot: A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport 9781501721335

The result is a vivid tale that will change minds about life in supposedly prim and proper New England.

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The Poison Plot: A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport 1501721321, 9781501721328

An accusation of attempted murder rudely interrupted Mary Arnold’s dalliances with working men and her extensive shoppin

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Batavia: betrayal, shipwreck, murder, sexual slavery, courage, a spine-chilling chapter in Australian history 9781742741468, 1742741460

The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutalit

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