Summary: Captain Peter Carey is found harpooned to a wall. He was a most unpleasant man, especially when he was drunk. He had a reputation for being violent, even having been prosecuted once for assaulting the local vicar. His daughter is actually glad that he is dead. She and her mother have endured years of abuse from the old whaler and sealer, who moreover had some remarkably peculiar habits. He did not sleep in the family house, but in an outhouse that he built some distance from the house, and which he decorated to look like a sailors cabin on a ship. This is where he was found harpooned. No footprints or other physical evidence are to be found at the scene...
