Nantucket  Novels

Dark Nantucket Noon (1975, 1st edition) - by Jane Langton
Ex-Lieutenant-Detective Homer Kelly solves a murder mystery on the island that takes place during a solar eclipse. Jane Langton knows Nantucket and she has caught its beauty, its legends, and its tensions with her words and with her drawings, and has produced an unusually fascinating novel.  
 
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Miriam Coffin or the Whale-Fisherman (1995 reprint)- by Joseph C. Hart
Nantucket books, novel, Nathaniel Philbrick, Miriam CoffinFirst published in 1884 and out-of-print for decades, this historical novel tells the story of Miriam Coffin: a strong independent Nantucket woman who builds a vast fortune only to lose it all in the dark days of the American Revolution. Quick-paced, often funny, and full of adventure, the novel wa... 
 
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