Not a gentleman's work : the untold story of a gruesome murder at sea and the long road to truth / Gerard Koeppel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koeppel, Gerard T., 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herbert Fuller (Ship).

Monks, Lester Hawthorne, 1876-1927.

Monks, Lester Hawthorne.

Bram, Thomas.

Murder--Atlantic Ocean--Case studies.

Murder.

Murder--Investigation--Nova Scotia--Halifax--Case studies.

Murder--Investigation.

Nova Scotia--Halifax.

Atlantic Ocean.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vii, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Hachette Books, 2020.

Summary:

"The Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8, 1896 with twelve people on board: captain-owner Charles Nash, his wife and Maine childhood-sweetheart Laura, two mates, the "mulatto" steward, six crewmen, and one passenger. Just before 2 A.M. on the sixth day at sea, the captain, his wife, and the second mate were slaughtered in their individual bunkrooms with the ship's axe, seven or eight blows apiece. Laura Nash was found with her thin nightgown pushed above her hips, her head and upper body smashed and deformed. Incredibly, no one saw or heard the killings... except the killer. After a harrowing voyage back to port for the survivors, the killer among them, it didn't take long for prosecutors to charge, and a Boston jury to convict, the first mate, a naturalized American of mixed blood from St. Kitts. But another man on board, the passenger, a twenty-year-old Harvard quitter from a proper Boston family, had his own dark secrets. Who was the real killer, and what became of these two men? Not a Gentleman's Work is the story of the fates of two vastly different men whose lives intersected briefly on one horrific voyage at sea--a story that reverberates with universal themes: inescapable terror, coerced confession, capital punishment, justice obscured by privilege, perseverance, redemption, and death by tortured soul"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780306903380

0306903385

OCLC:

1139029455