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Salthaven

First published: 1908
Pages: 235

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Robert Vyner comes home to a junior partnership in Vyner and Son, his father's ship-owning firm, and promptly turns the small seaport of Salthaven into a courtship problem. The object is Joan Hartley, daughter of the chief clerk his arrival has just displaced from a comfortable office. Robert invents errands that need no running and takes up gardening with no talent for it, the better to be near her. His rival, Mr. Saunders, is digging in the same beds on the advice of Captain Trimblett, an elderly shipmaster lodging out at Tranquil Vale who matchmakes with great confidence and mixed results. Trimblett has a second case on his hands too: Peter Truefitt, engaged at fifty-two and unable to break the news to the sister he lives with.

About the author

W. W. Jacobs

W. W. Jacobs (William Wymark Jacobs, 1863 to 1943) was an English writer born in London, the son of a wharf manager. He drew on that dockside world for comic stories of sailors and night watchmen, though he is best remembered for the chilling tale "The Monkey's Paw."