The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin by Robert J. Begiebing
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Overview: ROBERT J. BEGIEBING is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University. He is the author of six books, including The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton and The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin.
Genre: Mystery/Historical Fiction
The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin (Mystery)
The time is the late 1640s, the place, the New England coast. A young woman has been found dead, stripped naked and thrown in a river. Her husband has mysteriously halted his legal proceedings against the most likely suspect, who has disappeared into the wilderness. Based on an actual unsolved murder that took place in colonial New Hampshire, Robert J. Begiebing’s THE STRANGE DEATH OF MISTRESS COFFIN is at once a spellbinding mystery and a fascinating evocation of life in early America.
Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction (Historical Fiction)
Daniel Sanborn, trained in the academies of London, arrives in colonial Portsmouth, New Hampshire to establish himself as a portraitist. His very first commission, however—to paint the adopted daughter of a prominent local family—will challenge his most cherished beliefs about art and life. Mysterious and solemn, twelve-year-old Rebecca Wentworth reveals herself to be an artistic prodigy of incandescent genius, and the victim of bizarre, disturbing visions. Her family, confused and frightened by the girl’s uncanny talent and strange paintings, has decided to send her away for her own protection. Sanborn, however, becomes fascinated by Rebecca and her gifts.
Confident, accomplished, and reassuringly conventional, Sanborn succeeds over time in establishing himself as painter to Portsmouth’s elite. But even as he cultivates his position as artistic entrepreneur—investing in land, furthering his business connections—he also conspires with Rebecca’s former governess to learn where the girl has been sent. Gradually yielding to his growing obsession, Sanborn tracks Rebecca to a frontier village in the interior of New Hampshire. His interference precipitates a family crisis concerning her ultimate fate, and Sanborn is made the agent for presenting Rebecca, now seventeen, with a stark and unappealing choice.
The liberating potential of artistic expression clashes cruelly with social convention in a tale that masterfully evokes colonial New England.
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