JOAN DRUETT
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Laid up
Orient dock (print)
Gay Head
A perfect set
Butler's Flat Lighthouse, New Bedford
Selected Works
Biography
TUPAIA, CAPTAIN COOK'S POLYNESIAN NAVIGATOR
The story of the extraordinary -- but unacknowledged -- Polynesian who ensured the success of Cook's first discovery voyage
A first Wiki Coffin Mystery
A Watery Grave
Murder most foul in Portsmouth, Virginia, is solved in the middle of the Atlantic.
A Wiki Coffin maritime mystery
Shark Island
Pirate-hunting on the coast of Brazil
A Wiki Coffin Mystery
Run Afoul
Wiki Coffin must clear his father's name of murder in this third seafaring mystery set aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition
A Wiki Coffin mystery set in Patagonia
Deadly Shoals
Wiki Coffin joins the Patagonian gauchos to solve a grotesque murder
Castaway drama
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
A gripping tale of two starkly contrasting castaway experiences
Revenge at Sea
In the Wake of Madness
Murder and rebellion on the whaleship Sharon.
Women Under Sail
She Captains
Heroines and hellions of the sea.
Hen Frigates
Captains' wives at sea.
Surgeons under sail.
Rough Medicine
Whaling surgeons in South Seas.
Quick Links
Read my blog "World of the Written Word" here -- it covers book news and publishing gossip in New Zealand and New York
The Mystery Place
Home of the world's best short mystery fiction
Random House New Zealand
Publishers of TUPAIA, THE REMARKABLE STORY OF CAPTAIN COOK'S POLYNESIAN NAVIGATOR
South Pacific Pictures, multi-awardwinning producers of Whale Rider, Sione's Wedding and Outrageous Fortune
Wellington Hurricanes rugby football team -- the best!
St. Martin's Press and Minotaur Books, U.S. publishers of the Wiki Coffin series
Allen & Unwin: Publisher of the Year 2006
Find your favorite mystery authors here.
James L. Nelson -- raconteur of battle under sail
Authors Guild
mail to: druettjo@yahoo.com.au
CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION
Te Mahia, Kenepuru Sound
White Boat
Wave
Point Halswell, Wellington
Cape Koamaru from Queen Charlotte Sound
South Seas Whalers
Canoe at Mystery Island
White Skiff
Floating leaf
Port and Starboard
Boat with blue tarpaulin, Taupo
Blue Boat
Ron's wonderful work can be viewed at the EXHIBITIONS GALLERY, Featherston Street, Wellington, New Zealand, which is staging a CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION, starting 1 December.
To contact the artist, e-mail druettron@yahoo.com.au