Central Skagit Library District

Through three delightfully old-fashioned, incomparably written novels, Van Reid has relied on the gentlemen members of his Moosepath League to take readers back to a late-nineteenth-century Maine full of quirky inhabitants and irresistible Victorian spoofing. This fourth installment finds jovial League leader Tobias Walton, along with faithful assistant Sundry Moss, as guests at the eccentric Fern Farm--and unlikely counselors to a depressed pig--where...

"Step back in time to Portland, Maine, in 1896. When the young, beautiful, redheaded Cordelia Underwood inherits a parcel of land from her seafaring uncle, it sets in motion a chain of events that leads to the unearthing of a family secret two centuries old. Cordelia soon crosses paths with Mister Tobias Walton and finds herself aided in her quest by the warmhearted gentleman, who has never heard of an adventure he isn't eager to join"--Amazon.com....