Investigating the Mary Celeste

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On the 4th of December 1872 when Captain Morehouse of the sailing ship </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dei Gratia</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> called out 'Ahoy!' to a fellow vessel in the middle of the Atlantic he could never have anticipated that he was about to discover one of the greatest maritime mysteries ever recorded. The ship he had happened upon was the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mary Celeste</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and it was completely deserted with no sign of piracy or mutiny. Unsure how to proceed Morehouse sailed the abandoned ship into Gibraltar to claim salvage money. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What followed was an intense criminal investigation with murder mutiny and a possible insurance scam all considered as possible reasons for the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mary Celeste's</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> abandonment. But after a three-month trial no one was any closer to uncovering the truth. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>More than 150 years later we still do not know what prompted Captain Briggs his wife and baby and the crew of the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mary Celeste</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> to abandon ship mid-ocean. The speculation continues to this day.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With twenty-five crime and historical novels under his belt historian D. Lawrence-Young is the perfect candidate to bring all of these theories together delving into this mysterious case and shedding light on possible solutions credible hoaxes and tales of other ghost ships. </span></p>