Treachery at Sharpnose Point

While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the <em>Caledonia</em> a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further investigation Seal begins to suspect the townspeople and chiefly the town's parson Robert Hawker for the <em>Caledonia</em>'s demise on the jagged shores below. Though no one has ever been brought to court for wrecking--luring ships ashore to loot the cargo--it's a commonly held belief that this sort of cruelty did take place. But is that what happened in Morwenstow? <br> Having meticulously researched maritime logs broadsides of the day and other first-hand documents Seal weaves history travelogue and imaginative reconstruction in this marvelous piece of detective work bringing us a mystery of the best kind--the sort that really did happen.<br>