The Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New
England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8, 1896
with twelve people on board: captain-owner Charles Nash, his wife
and Maine childhood-sweetheart Laura, two mates, the 'mulatto'
steward, six crewmen, and one passenger. Just before 2 A.M. on the
sixth day at sea, the captain, his wife, and the second mate were
slaughtered in their individual bunkrooms with the ship's axe,
seven or eight blows apiece. Laura Nash was found with her thin
nightgown pushed above her hips, her head and upper body smashed
and deformed. Incredibly, no one saw or heard the killings...
except the killer. After a harrowing voyage back to port for the
survivors, the killer among them, it didn't take long for
prosecutors to charge, and a Boston jury to convict, the first
mate, a naturalized American of mixed blood from St. Kitts. But
another man on board, the passenger, a twenty-year-old Harvard
quitter from a proper Boston family, had his own dark secrets. Who
was the real killer, and what became of these two men? Not a
Gentleman's Work is the story of the fates of two vastly different
men whose lives intersected briefly on one horrific voyage at
sea--a story that reverberates with universal themes: inescapable
terror, coerced confession, capital punishment, justice obscured by
privilege, perseverance, redemption, and death by tortured soul.
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