The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin

by Robert J. Begiebing

Overview

New England. 1648. The Piscataqua Settlement. A young woman has been found dead, her violated body stripped naked and thrown in a river. Her husband, a reclusive and learned man, has mysteriously halted his legal proceedings against the most likely suspect, who has disappeared into the wilderness. The settlement’s elders call on a young Englishman, Richard Browne, to discover the truth about what happened. But the more he learns, the more puzzling the crime becomes, and the more he finds himself drawn to the wife of the missing suspect.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611683394
Publisher:	University Press of New England
Publication date:	08/14/2012
Series:	Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	252
File size:	503 KB

About the Author

ROBERT J. BEGIEBING is professor of English emeritus at Southern New Hampshire University. He is the author of six books, including two other novels in this historical trilogy: The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton and Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Prologue

Part I

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

Part II

Kathryn Coffin Her Private Journal

Part III

XIII

XIV

XV

XVI

XVII

XVIII

XIX

XX

XXI

XXII

Part IV

XXIII

XXIV

XXV

Praise for Robert J. Begiebing's The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin

Editorial Reviews

“Mesmerizing. Slowly, subtly, the story twists on itself like a pinned snake.”—E. Annie Proulx, New York Times Book Review

“Striking and original.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Stereotypes we learned in grade school simply don’t exist here; instead, there are passionate, complex characters, including unexpectedly strong and often rebellious women.”—The Denver Post

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