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1812: With her guardian planning to remarry, 20-year-old Phoebe Dymond finds she is no longer welcome in his Falmouth home and is soon hustled aboard the packet ship Providence bound for Jamaica and an arranged marriage. A skilled herbalist and midwife, Phoebe clashes with ship's surgeon, Jowan Crossley. But their professional antagonism evolves into mutual respect and a deepening attraction neither dare acknowledge. Following a skirmish with a French privateer, Providence is robbed of crew by a Royal Navy frigate and arrives to find the island facing a slave revolt and Kingston flooded with French refugees. Escorted by Jowan to the plantation of which she will be mistress, terrifying events force Phoebe to relinquish all hope of the happiness she has glimpsed. But her journey is not yet over...
"The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes" by Israel Zangwill Israel Zangwill was a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century. This book is a collection of his most beloved tales that portray Jewish culture. The volume contains: The Grey Wig, Chassé-croisé, The Woman Beater, The Eternal Feminine, The Silent Sisters, The Big Bow Mystery, Merely Mary Ann, and The Serio-comic Governess.
"The Big Bow Mystery" by Israel Zangwill is one of the earliest examples of the locked-room mystery genre, mysteries that seem to be committed in circumstances under which it appeared impossible. Mr. Arthur Constant asks his landlady Mrs. Drabdump to be woken early. At six forty-five in the morning of a cold and foggy day, she knocks loudly on the door, but gets no answer, so she goes to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. The woman, who decides to ask for help from George Grodman, a well-known investigator who lives across the street. Once in front of the door, the detective tries to turn the handle, but it's closed, and the only thing to do at this point is to force it to find Constant lying in bed with his throat cut.