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Jane And The Prisoner Of Wool House
Stephanie Barron
Jane Austen #6
Bantam
November 2002
On Sale: October 29, 2002
347 pages ISBN: 0553578405 EAN: 9780553578409 Paperback (reprint)
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In her sixth engrossing outing, Jane Austen employs her
delicious wit and family ties to the Royal Navy in a case
of murder on the high seas. Somewhere in the picturesque
British port of Southampton, among a crew of colorful,
eccentric, and fiercely individual souls, a killer has
come ashore. And only Jane can fathom the depths of his
ruthless mind....
Jane and the Prisoner of Wool
House
“I will assert that sailors are endowed
with greater worth than any set of men in England.”
So muses Jane Austen as she stands in the
buffeting wind of Southampton’s quay beside her brother
Frank on a raw February morning. Frank, a post captain in
the Royal Navy, is without a ship to command, and his best
prospect is the Stella Maris, a fast frigate
captained by his old friend Tom Seagrave.
“Lucky”
Tom — so dubbed for his habit of besting enemy ships — is
presently in disgrace, charged with violating the Articles
of War. Tom’s first lieutenant, Eustace Chessyre, has
accused Seagrave of murder in the death of a French
captain after the surrender of his ship.
Though
Lucky Tom denies the charge, his dagger was found in the
dead man’s chest. Now Seagrave faces court-martial and
execution for a crime he swears he did not
commit.
Frank, deeply grieved, is certain his
friend will hang. But Jane reasons that either Seagrave or
Chessyre is lying — and that she and Frank have a duty to
discover the truth.
The search for the captain’s
honor carries them into the troubled heart of Seagrave’s
family, through some of the seaport’s worst sinkholes, and
at long last to Wool House, the barred brick structure
that serves as gaol for French prisoners of war.
Risking contagion or worse, Jane agrees to nurse
the murdered French captain’s imprisoned crew — and
elicits a debonair surgeon’s account of the Stella
Maris’s battle that appears to clear Tom Seagrave of
all guilt.
When Eustace Chessyre is found
murdered, the entire affair takes on the appearance of an
insidious plot against Seagrave, who is charged with the
crime. Could any of his naval colleagues wish him dead? In
an era of turbulent intrigue and contested amour, could it
be a case of cherchez la femme ... or a veiled
political foe at work? And what of the sealed orders under
which Seagrave embarked that fateful night in the
Stella Maris? Death knocks again at Jane’s own door
before the final knots in the killer’s net are completely
untangled.
Always surprising, Jane and the
Prisoner of Wool House is an intelligent and
intriguing mystery that introduces Jane and her readers
to “the naval set” — and charts a true course through the
amateur sleuth’s most troubled waters
yet.
From the Hardcover edition.
Being a Jane Austen Mystery
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