Perkins Wilder

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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Austen Jane 17751817 --Fiction


Great Britain--Officers--Fiction


Hoare Bartholomew Fictitious character--Fiction


Great Britain--History--George III 17601820--Fiction


Mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Sea stories.

PS3566.E6914867

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