Black Hawthorn
Original Cover Description from the 1933 edition:
John Stephen Strange’s The Strangler Fig was picked by William Lyon Phelps as one of the ten best detective stories of the last five years. In this new mystery is the same tense, dramatic power and subtle ingenuity of plot. In its command of terror and excitement BLACK HAWTHORN takes high rank among American mysteries.
In the black hawthorn jar from China were sealed, so the legend went, the ghosts of evil. It had played its part in the turbulent annals of the Gaunt family ever since the first Gaunt brought his clippers ’round the Horn from the Far East to the ports of New England—for to it clung the uneasy odor of menace and death. And when Hetty Gaunt, the matriarch of the family, died, and strange tales gathered around her dying, it was to the mystery of the jar that Detective-Sergeant Potter of the New London police looked for an answer. He found more than he expected, for the background of murder began to spread until it enveloped the whole Gaunt family, closing in first here, then there, until Potter found the one vital clue that ended once and for all the terror of the Gaunts.
John Stephen Strange’s The Strangler Fig was picked by William Lyon Phelps as one of the ten best detective stories of the last five years. In this new mystery is the same tense, dramatic power and subtle ingenuity of plot. In its command of terror and excitement BLACK HAWTHORN takes high rank among American mysteries.
In the black hawthorn jar from China were sealed, so the legend went, the ghosts of evil. It had played its part in the turbulent annals of the Gaunt family ever since the first Gaunt brought his clippers ’round the Horn from the Far East to the ports of New England—for to it clung the uneasy odor of menace and death. And when Hetty Gaunt, the matriarch of the family, died, and strange tales gathered around her dying, it was to the mystery of the jar that Detective-Sergeant Potter of the New London police looked for an answer. He found more than he expected, for the background of murder began to spread until it enveloped the whole Gaunt family, closing in first here, then there, until Potter found the one vital clue that ended once and for all the terror of the Gaunts.
The Inn at Stonington,
Connecticut
1930's Girl in Swimsuit
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Stonington Breakwater Light
Painting of clipper ships in Whampoa Harbor during the Opium Wars of the 1850's.
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