LAMPLIGHTER BY THE SEA,
by Michael Nethercott
The Barb Goffman Presents series showcases
the best in modern mystery and crime stories,
personally selected by one of the most acclaimed
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None who knew him would disagree: Enoch Gosset was blood-borne for the hunting of the whale. He had earned the highest term of respect that we Nantucketers could in those days bestow—he was a fishy man. The fact that he hailed not from our island, but held the lesser stature of a Cape Codder, had not hampered his progress in the trade. Plenty of Cape and New Bedford men made their livings in pursuit of the leviathan, and if one of them occasionally rose to the esteemed position of a Nantucket whaleship captain,
