The Cape May Packet

Things are getting serious as the Capitol burns, Fort McHenry is shelled, and the packet Fair Molly turns from tourist shuttle to privateer, plucking, prizes and prisoners from Delaware and New Jersey waters. Will Hand, the Captain's son, trails money-seeking traitors in the spy trade, be-friends an injured British sailor with Yankee sympathies, pushes his luck, and bones up on his reading and writing to put Princeton in the offing. Water-logged war games and dry land-roving, so sailors take warning.


Genre: Children's Fiction