Robert J. Begiebing is the author of many articles and stories and ten books, including fiction, criticism, memoir, and collected journalism. His novels represent a historical tetralogy spanning the 1630s to the late 1800s. His first novel in the series, The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin, was chosen as a “Main Selection” for the Mystery and Literary Guild Book Clubs. The second novel in the series, Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction, won the Langum Prize for Historical Fiction. All …