Glen Rippel: 2 books

Times around 1900 where marked by heavy steel coal fired steam engines, wood heated drafty homes, horses worked the fields, and whaling was at its apex. Electricity, phones and automobiles were rare and only available to wealthy. Everyone worked hard and often died early. Entertainment for those that...

This short story is in the form of a letter from Mrs. Dana Wood to her husband at sea, first mate John Wood of the whaler ship MATHEW HAUT, out of New London, Connecticut, in the year 1913. Mrs. Wood was William Gillette’s cook and introduced in a previous James Michael Walker novel, The Case of the Flying Corpse. Enjoy Mrs. Wood’s mystery letter which takes place at Gillette's Castle.