Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial that Changed Legal History Christopher Franceschelli and the pain and pleasure

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but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought

life-affirming debut novel

the brother of the fugitive accused

Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial that Changed Legal History Christopher Franceschelli and the pain and pleasureFour men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic, Captain Thomas Dudley and his crew found themselves adrift in a tiny lifeboat. As days turned to weeks, they faced an unthinkable choice: starve to death or resort to