The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin Author:Robert J. Begiebing 1640: In the New England settlement of Piscataqua, a young woman is found dead, her violated body stripped naked and thrown into a river. When a newcomer to the settlement is asked by the elders to investigate, he finds that the more he learns, the more puzzling the crime becomes. Based on an actual unsolved murder that took place in colonial Ne... more »w Hampshire.« less