Hoare and the Portsmouth atrocities /
Wilder Perkins.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 1998.
- 217 p. ; 22 cm.
A 19th century mystery on a whispering detective. He is Bartholomew Hoare of the Royal Navy whose larynx was crushed by a musket ball. The case involves the murder of the captain of a navy ship.
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