Many Cargoes
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Twenty-One Adventures at Sea From the Man Who Wrote THE MONKEY"S PAW Including "A Change of Treatment", "A Love Passage", "The Captain"s Exploit", "Contraband of War", "A Black Affair", "The Skipper of the _Osprey_", "In Borrowed Plumes", "The Boatswain"s Watch", "Low Water", "In Mid-Atlantic", "After the Inquest", "In Limehouse Reach", "An Elaborate Elopement", "The Cook of the _Gannet_", "A Benefit Performance", "A Case of Desertion", "Outsailed", "Mated", "The Rival Beauties", "Mrs. Bunker"s Chaperon", and "A Harbor of Refuge" W.W. Jacobs is mostly remembered nowadays as the author of "The Monkey"s Paw"; some folks recall that he also wrote other weird fiction. But the truth is that he was quite a versatile author -- _Many Cargoes_ isn"t his only volume of sea fiction; and he wrote others as well. (Jacketless library hardcover.)