Run Afoul: A Wiki Coffin Adventure
By (Author) Joan Druett
Allen & Unwin
Allen & Unwin
1st January 2008
Australia
General
Fiction
N823
Paperback
300
Width 130mm, Height 195mm
288g
As the 1865 US Exploring Expedition heads into the port of Rio de Janeiro, one of the vessels collides with a Salem trading ship. Wiki Coffin, resident linguist of the famous convoy, is astonished to discover that the commander of the trader is none other than his father, Captain William Coffin. An incorrigible adventurer like his half-Maori son, William has sailed all seven seas (plus another dozen or so that he's managed to invent!).
Their reunion is quickly overshadowed by two mysterious deaths, which ultimately send the Captain to trial for a murder he didn't commit. Wiki must cast aside family loyalties as he investigates the crimes to unmask the real killers before the Expedition sails on.
Joan Druett is an award-winning nautical non-fiction writer and renowned maritime historian. She lives in New Zealand.