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Index
Copyright
Table of Contents
Author’s Note
Cast of Characters
Prologue: Steamer, Sailor, Lawyer
Part I: Ahead Strong
Chapter One: Worshipful Master
Chapter Two: “He Could Attend to the Rest Himself”
Chapter Three: “Steady as a Church”
Chapter Four: The Flower Ship
Chapter Five: Stuck on the Bar
Chapter Six: Faints, Curses, and Screams
Chapter Seven: River Afire
Chapter Eight: Distant Voices
Chapter Nine: “A Little Heaven Afloat”
Chapter Ten: Dragon Breath
Chapter Eleven: Too Late, the Messenger
Chapter Twelve: A Lingering Hat
Chapter Thirteen: April Fool’s Day
Chapter Fourteen: Swallowing the Anchor
Chapter Fifteen: A Thousand Balloons
Chapter Sixteen: Sleeping on a Volcano
Chapter Seventeen: Judgment Day
Chapter Eighteen: “I Can’t Do Anything Like That”
Chapter Nineteen: The Bargain
Chapter Twenty: Playing with Fire
Chapter Twenty-One: A Sickly Daughter
Chapter Twenty-Two: “A Mr. Hull Is on the Line”
Chapter Twenty-Three: “Goodbye, Everybody”
Chapter Twenty-Four: Broken Propellers
Chapter Twenty-Five: “To Be Nearer Home”
Chapter Twenty-Six: May Day
Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Spy Aboard
Part II: What Is Honest Never Sinks
Chapter Twenty-Eight: July 24, 1915
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Gone.
Chapter Thirty: A Luncheon
Chapter Thirty-One: The Human Frog
Chapter Thirty-Two: “Who Has Little Martha?”
Chapter Thirty-Three: The Confession
Chapter Thirty-Four: No. 396
Chapter Thirty-Five: “The Angel”
Chapter Thirty-Six: Muzzling Erickson
Chapter Thirty-Seven: “You Were Lucky in Cleveland”
Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Charges
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Fifteen Typed Pages
Part III: Trial and Error
Chapter Forty: Running from the Law
Chapter Forty-One: A Toy Boat
Chapter Forty-Two: “I’m Trying to Forget.”
Chapter Forty-Three: The Shady Side
Chapter Forty-Four: A Vanishing Gash
Chapter Forty-Five: A Vanishing River
Chapter Forty-Six: Fool Killer
Chapter Forty-Seven: Bubbles
Chapter Forty-Eight: Another Toy Boat
Chapter Forty-Nine: The Captain Trips Up
Chapter Fifty: The Captain Tears Up
Chapter Fifty-One: A Litany of No
Chapter Fifty-Two: “It Seemed Like a Century”
Chapter Fifty-Three: “The Rich Stay in Hotels”
Chapter Fifty-Four: A Wrong Irreparable
Chapter Fifty-Five: The Missing Angel
Chapter Fifty-Six: Striking Back
Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Diving Detective
Chapter Fifty-Eight: A Moment of Honor
Chapter Fifty-Nine: A Miscalculation
Chapter Sixty: At Sea
Chapter Sixty-One: A Secret Signing
Chapter Sixty-Two: “An Impossible Crime”
Epilogue: That Day, That Sorrow
Photographs
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Notes
Index
About the Author
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