A Maggot Author:John Fowles A modern narrator supplements the views of a group of eighteenth-century travelers as they make an inquiry into the mysterious death by hanging of one traveler and the disappearance -- vanished into thin air -- of another. — A Maggot is not a historical novel in the normal sense. It began as a quirk or obsession (a 'maggot' in th... more »e archaic sense of the word) which found its setting in the second wave of Protestant Dissent in England. It took shape as a mystery -- a compelling investigation of unaccountable motives and deeds -- which led through beguiling paths to a starling vision at its center.« less