The Hound of Wellfleet
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Synopsis
On the outer Cape, where the bog remembers everything and gives nothing back, an old family legend has started killing again. A forensic anthropologist arrives at Pinckney Street with a photograph of a paw print and the worst three weeks of his professional life, and within a day Hamilton and Wilson are driving east across the Sagamore Bridge into fog, folklore, and a fortune with too many heirs. The last man to inherit the Marchwood land died alone and afraid. The next in line, Robert Marchwood, has just arrived from out west to claim it — and something on the marsh means to see that he does not. Hamilton sends Wilson ahead to the Hall to guard the heir while he works the case from angles no one expects. The Hound of Wellfleet moves the series to the coast for the first time, into a landscape as much a character as any suspect — and a haunting with a very human hand behind it.
Atmospheric, haunting, and sharply intelligent, The Hound of Wellfleet is a modern gothic mystery in the grand detective tradition. The fourth volume of The Adventures of Henry Hamilton, it combines psychological suspense, New England menace, and precise deduction in a tale where the legend is only the wrapper—and the truth beneath it is far more dangerous.
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