On a Desert Shore
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Sourcebooks, Incorporated, 2016
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N° de ref. del artículo 18597712-6
- Título
- On a Desert Shore
- Autor
- Rizzolo, S. K.
- Editorial
- Sourcebooks, Incorporated
- Año de publicación
- 2016
- Estado
- Good
- Encuadernación
- Encuadernación de tapa dura
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1464205450
- ISBN 13
- 9781464205453
- Peso del artículo
- 0,902 libras
- Dimensiones
- N/A
- Serie
- Libro 4 de 4: Regency Mysteries
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On a Desert Shore
A Regency Mystery
By S.K. RizzoloPoisoned Pen Press
All rights reserved.
Jamaica, 1796
The baby had cried for hours, a thin wail that grated on the nerves. He wished the crying would stop, but it would not let him rest when all he wanted to do was float untethered to the earth. Eventually, he gave up and came fully awake to who and where he was: Lieutenant John Chase of the Royal Navy in the hospital at Port Royal. New-come buckra, / He get sick, / He tak fever, / He be die; / He be die. When Chase's ship had entered the harbor, the singing and the clapping of the boatwomen selling fruits had seemed meant to give him merry welcome — that is, until he'd caught the words that floated over the water. He be die.
It was one of the ugly realities of the disease that the patient sometimes rallied only to succumb to the dread black vomiting — the coffee grounds, they called it — followed by the appearance of the ghastly yellow complexion, delirium, and death. Thousands and thousands of Chase's countrymen defending the British Empire in the West Indies had been lost to this fate. He'd been lucky. In his illness a host of spirits — nurses and servants — had attended him. He'd heard them chattering or glimpsed them drifting by his door as they crossed the piazza. Now the voices had stopped, and he seemed alone in the world, except for a flapping sound and its gentle breeze. Well, he thought wryly, if the fever declined to release him, he hoped the kindly hands would place his pistol within reach and leave him to put an end to the wretched work himself.
Mostly he thought about the woman called Joanna, even smiling to himself at the similarity in their Christian names. Even at the height of his fever, Chase had sensed her there, directing events. She came to poke and prod, oversee the changing of linens, or force him to swallow one of her foul concoctions. He awaited these visits, desperately, as if only Joanna had the power to stitch his sweating, puking body back to his soul. Once he had awakened to find the doctor, who reeked of brandy, standing over the bed, shaking his head to pronounce a sentence of doom. From what Chase had heard of the conventional treatments for "yellow Jack" — the bleeding and purging and the calomel, which made the saliva run like a river down the victim's face — he was not entirely sorry when the doctor went away again.
As the rank odor of his own body assaulted his nostrils, Chase grimaced, shifting his head on the pillow, and opened his eyes. Pain lanced through his skull so that he had to hold himself very still and wait, teeth gritted. But at least one question was resolved. The breeze was a gift from a boy who sat in a chair by the bed. Ten or twelve years old, he wore an oversized, striped cotton shirt rolled up loosely at the elbows and trousers of some coarse material. He had hung his broad-brimmed straw hat over the chair post and hiked up one bare foot to the wicker seat as he leaned forward, his forearm sweeping in a graceful arc to wield his fan.
Gingerly, Chase took stock. The candlelight playing over the child's curly head told him the hour was late. His fever had abated. The torment of the retching that emptied his guts had ceased, and the ache in his head, though excruciating, had receded. He felt cooler and appallingly thirsty. He tried to ask for a drink, but all that emerged from his throat was a feeble croak. Fortunately, that was enough to bring the boy to his feet. "Drink, suh?"
He nodded. With surprising strength, the boy pushed aside
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