Hoare and the Headless Captains: A Maritime Mystery Featuring Captain Bartholomew Hoare
by By Perkins, Wilder
Category: Fiction , Mystery & Detective , General

Barthomolew Hoare, struck in the throat by a musket ball while defending His Majesty George III's seas, has almost reconciled himself to honorable land duties. A man cannot command a ship when his voice won't rise above a whisper. But now, praise heaven, the Admiral of the Port is giving him a ship, with a lieutenant who will relay his orders.His high spirits are a bit dampened, though, when he sees Royal Duke and the crew! A more inexperienced, motley gang of landlubbers Hoare has never seen. His orders are to look into the murder of two Navy captains, brothers, whose bodies, or parts of them, were found in the forest. The Navy believes that a traitor in the pay of France had arranged the murders, and Hoare is charged with finding the culprit. But how is he to do this with the ragtag crew manning his little tub?