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When the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the West Indies Squadron ordered the armed schooner Gipsy to add a second officer to her compliment, Lieutenant Fitton was not pleased.
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About the Author
Showell Styles was born Frank Showell Styles in 1908. His childhood was spent in the Welsh hills and he became an avid mountaineer and explorer. During the war, Styles joined the Navy and was posted in the Mediterranean, but even there he walked and climbed as much as he could. An aspiring writer, Styles already had articles published in Punch, before setting out toe make his living as an author. His first novel, Traitor's Mountain, was a murder mystery set on and around Tryfan in Wales. He became a prolific writer with over 160 books published. As well as books on mountains such as The Mountaineer's Weekend Book, he wrote detective fiction under the pseudonym of Glyn Carr, and humorous pieces as C.L. Inker. Showell Styles died in 2005.
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- PublisherRobert Hale Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0709062109
- ISBN 13 9780709062103
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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