Drowned Hogg Day by Nick Smith

Drowned Hogg Day by Nick Smith

Alex Hogg knows that he will drown on December 30^th 2016. As the day of doom approaches, he makes a number of fascinating discoveries. On December 30^th 1816, Percy Bysshe Shelley married Mary Godwin, the author of Frankenstein, and on December 30^th 1916 the Mad Monk, Rasputin, was murdered in the Moika Palace, St Petersburg. How do these apparently unconnected events link to Alex's prospective drowning and is there anything he can do to avert his fate?

Part-comedy, part-mystery, part-history, part-crossword puzzle, Drowned Hogg Day will keep its readers on tenterhooks from first page to last. By way of a bonus, four one-act plays are included, each set on 30/12/**16.

Nick Smith is the author of Bridge Literature and winner of the 2014 Oxfordshire Drama Network's Playwriting Prize. Drowned Hogg Day is his first novel.

Nick Smith is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. He obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Vassar College in 1994, a law degree from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1997, and a PhD in philosophy from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee in 2002. He worked as a litigator for a prominent corporate law firm in Manhattan before coming to the University of New Hampshire. In addition, he worked as a court clerk for the Honorable R.