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Wilder Perkins - "Hoare and the Headless Captains"
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A little brig that dangled from its mooring like a fierce mouse with its teeth clenched in a tomcat's tail.
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?
Gradually, however, Hoare discovers that the unprepossessing people under him, from a less-than-five-foot-tall lieutenant to the female master's mate, a cryptographer, a geometer, and the sailor who keeps a flock of carrier pigeons, have just the unusual skills to bring this urgent assignment to a successful conclusion. And since they are anything if not willing to perform on all counts, they might be able to be whipped into acceptable enough shape so that Hoare can challenge his arrogant rival to a race without disgracing his ship, his crew, and himself.
"Hoare is a thoroughly enchanting cross between Horatio Hornblower and Agent 007."
—TOM EASTON in Analog
BY THE TIME THE GRAY OF DAWN began to light Royal Duke's beautiful broad stern window and the miniature gallery behind it, Hoare had assigned some of the names in the cipher—somewhat uncertainly—to some of the persons who were or might be involved against the crown. It was all very vague and quite unsatisfactory for a direct-minded sailor.
—from HOARE AND THE HEADLESS CAPTAINS
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