The Case of the Bitter Draught is the fourth book in the Wolflock Cases teen fantasy mystery series. The festival of Mabon always left a sour taste in Wolflock’s mouth. He’d do anything to get out of it. So, when Captain Blutro asks him to investigate a smuggler and contraband conspiracy, Wolflock doesn’t care what it takes to solve the case. But Wolflock soon finds he must exercise his best powers of perception to find the answers without tipping the culprit off. If he treads too hard, the case will be lost, and he’ll have to participate in the dreaded holiday. But amongst his new friends, who is the criminal?
The Case of the Lost Mermaid is the sixth book in the Wolflock Cases teen fantasy mystery series. Wolflock owes his life to a mermaid he may have accidentally doomed. The only way to save her is to find the mythical mermaid city of Sinalta without delaying the ship. But the cards of Faleen and Bleen have foretold disaster in his fate. Is their interference to save his life or do they have sinister intentions? To make matters worse, he has to make a choice: repay his debt by delaying the ship or leave the mermaid to perish in the icy sea. Unfortunately, if he can’t solve the case in two days, he may no longer be able to choose.
The Case of the Captain’s Hair is the first book in the Wolflock Cases teen fantasy mystery series. When fifteen-year-old Wolflock is unceremoniously banished from his father’s estate, his only option is to begin his journey to Mystentine University. But as he boards the Silver Ice Hair ship, things take a turn for the strange. The captain is missing, the ship is falling apart, and a few key passengers appear to have a hand in the dilemma. To save himself from destitution and get the ship sailing again, Wolflock must use all his deductive skills to solve the case.
The Case of the Curse of Houl is the third book in the Wolflock Cases fantasy mystery series. A ship is a small place and things spread quickly. Songs, jokes, stories and gossip. Disease. As one by one the company aboard the Silver Ice Hair fall ill, it is up to Wolflock to solve the mystery before the disease takes the life of those he holds dear. Is this a regular illness? Or has the river god Houl cursed the ship? With the ship is clouded by illness, how will be discover what is superstition… and what is deception?
Scholars, librarians, students, and database vendors have all applauded the increase in access to rare, old, venerated, and obscure texts that has resulted from the rise of electronic resources. Almost everyone associated with any branch of cultural history has heard the claims about unlimited research opportunity and the rediscovery of overlooked sources. But are these claims true? Have high-tech systems and methods enhanced or inhibited scholarship? Nowhere is this question more pressing than in the area of eighteenth-century studies, where so much of the subject matter relates to the first wave of informational abundance: to that great period of profuse printing during which presses produced a mass market full of diverse readers. Textual Studies and the Enlarged Eighteenth Century probes the assumptions about the advanced tools that may be replicating this period of profusion among contemporary scholars. HSow much access to “period” information do current cost and present institutional support really allow? Who is accessing what—and who is not? Which authors and which topics get lost in the processor-driven shuffle? How do electronic tools bias scholarship? What are the disadvantages of databases? These and many more questions receive a brisk and robust review in this first critique of new-wave research. A variety of acclaimed scholars from an interdisciplinary array of specialties look at topics ranging from legacy bibliographical projects to standards for online editions to para-textual materials to the appropriateness of importing electronic research techniques into the study of a low-tech period and on to the transatlantic exchange of information in both the early modern and the present periods. Scholars in all fields will benefit from this vigorous analysis of the assumptions underlying the tools and the methods of twenty-first century humanities scholarship.
