✦ LIBER ✦

A Bottle of Rum

✍ Scribed by Steve Goble

Publisher: Seventh Street Books
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Weight: 172 KB
Category: Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

August, 1723 — Spider John Rush believes he has escaped piracy forever. Enjoying rum and chess in a dark Lymington tavern, he dreams of finding passage to Nantucket to reunite with his beloved Em and to finally get to know the son he remembers only as a babe in arms, though the lad must be dreaming of going to sea himself by now. But when a lazy taverner is stabbed to death, one glance at the victim tells Spider the pirate life has followed him ashore and he cannot possibly ignore this bloody crime. The wise maneuver would be to run before authorities arrive, but Spider is denied that choice because he's already deeply, connected to the crime—he fashioned the murder weapon with his own hands.

The knife was a gift to a young man, one who ran off with the notorious Anne Bonny before Spider could drag him into a respectable life.

Soon, Spider John and his ancient shipmate Odin are dodging accusations and battling smugglers on a trail that leads to a...

✦ Subjects

Mystery

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

And a Bottle of Rum, Revised and Updated

✍ Wayne Curtis 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Crown/Archetype 🌐 en-US ⚖ 256 KB 👁 1 views

**Now revised, updated, and with new recipes, *And a Bottle of Rum* tells the raucously entertaining story of this most American of liquors** From the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of Havana bar hoppers, spirits and cocktail columnist Wayne Curtis offers a history

A Bottle Full of Djinn

✍ Paula Lester 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Paula Lester 🌐 English ⚖ 102 KB

Zoey Rivers has a pretty great job as Head of Staff at Sunnyside Retired Witches Community. She's good at handling the magical messes that are part and parcel of providing a home for elderly (and some slightly senile) witches. But when the messes turn from slightly sloppy to hugely horrible, Z

Rim To Run the Rim

✍ A. Bertram Chandler 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🌐 UND ⚖ 37 KB

A Battle of Brains

✍ Barbara Cartland 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Barbara Cartland.com;Barbaracartland.com 🌐 English ⚖ 77 KB 👁 1 views

Daughter of the Earl of Longwood, a gentleman gambler, and the Countess of Longwood, a society beauty, Lady Yolanda Wood has an exciting if unconventional childhood travelling around the casinos and racecourses of Europe. But life changes dramatically after the tragic death of her father, and she an

A Battle of Souls

✍ Bella Forrest 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Nightlight 🌐 English ⚖ 256 KB

Rum

✍ Jane, A. 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 212 KB