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Jeremy Cork first appeared in "The Margrave of Virginia" in the August 1975 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Further exploits of this 18th century inventor, speculator and amateur sleuth of "social puzzles" would appear over the next year and half. Eventually author S.S. Rafferty penned one adventure with Cork and his yeoman financier Wellman Oaks for each of the original thirteen colonies. All thirteen stories were collected in a rather scarce, but nonetheless noteworthy, book called Fatal Flourishes (1979). It was later reissued as part of the "Library of Crime Classics" imprint by International Polygonics under the title Cork of the Colonies (IPL, 1984).Like Lillian de la Torre's detective stories about Samuel Johnson and Boswell Rafferty's tales are loaded with 18th century history and lore. But unlike the Johnson stories Captain Cork is an entirely fictional creation. Described by his sidekick as "six foot six inches of insouciance" Cork is similar to many of the Holmesian inductive detectives in that he almost immediately knows the solution, alternately challenges and rebuffs Oaks, his long suffering Watson, and indulges a bit too much in his own vanity. The cases he

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Author

S., S Rafferty

Publisher

AVON

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780380417728

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Cozy Mysteries & Amateur Sleuths

Rating

4.2 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14