question: What year was the book released that was based on the 1873 murders on one of the Isles of Shoals in Maine?
answer: 1997
context: Title: Star Island (New Hampshire)
  Passage: Star Island is one of the Isles of Shoals that straddle the border between New Hampshire and Maine, approximately 7 mi from the mainland in the Atlantic Ocean.  At 38 acre , Star Island is the largest of the four islands that are located in New Hampshire and second largest overall, after Appledore Island.  The island was supposedly assigned its name by sailors who imagined the shape of the island as the points of a shining star.  Originally known by the local "Shoalers" as the town of Gosport, in 1876 the island was annexed to the town of Rye.
  Title: List of prolific writers
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  Title: The Great Dinosaur Robbery
  Passage: The Great Dinosaur Robbery is a now out-of-print book released in 1970 and written by David Eliades and Robert Forrest Webb under the pseudonym of David Forrest.  The book was later the basis for the 1975 film "One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing".
  Title: The Professor and the Madman (film)
  Passage: The Professor and the Madman is an upcoming American-Irish drama film, based on the book "The Surgeon of Crowthorne" by Simon Winchester.  The film's title is taken from the edition of the book released in the U.S. and Canada.
  Title: Smuttynose Island
  Passage: Smuttynose Island (formerly "Smutty-nose") is one of the Isles of Shoals, located 6 mi off the coast of New Hampshire, but actually in the state of Maine, in the United States.  It is part of the town of Kittery, in York County.  It was named by fishermen, seeing the island at sea level and noticing how the profuse seaweed at one end looked like the "smutty nose" of some vast sea animal.
  Title: Tiffany Mitchell
  Passage: Tiffany Dawn Mitchell (also Raymond) was a fictional character from the BBC soap opera "EastEnders", played by Martine McCutcheon from 1995 until 1998.  The character was created by the writer, Tony Jordan.  She was introduced as a school friend of Bianca Jackson and became a prominent and popular character during her tenure due to a combustible relationship with the soap's landlord, Grant Mitchell.  McCutcheon quit the role in 1998 in order to pursue a musical career.  Producers made the controversial decision to kill the character off, an act that McCutcheon publicly criticised as she had hoped to return at some stage.  A book released in 1998, documenting Tiffany's time in the soap, was a number one bestseller.
  Title: Shouting out to the World!
  Passage: Shouting out to the World! : A Run for the Dream, Bigbang's 13,140 Days Challenge is a book released by South Korean group, BIGBANG, on January 28, 2009.  The book is actually more a book about self-development than one that is of Bigbang’s autobiography.  It's a story about 5 teenagers achieving their dreams.  Each member tell the story of their own journey & growth as they pursued their dreams.  They also tell their feelings after realizing their dreams and their thought about what comes afterwards.
  Title: The Invention of Nature
  Passage: The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World is a nonfiction book released in 2015, by the historian Andrea Wulf about the Prussian naturalist, explorer and geographer Alexander von Humboldt.  The book follows Humboldt from his early childhood and travels through Europe as a young man to his journey through Latin America and his return to Europe.  Wulf makes the case that Humboldt synthesized knowledge from many different fields to form a vision of nature as one interconnected system, that would go on to influence scientists, activists and the public.
  Title: Islesford, Maine
  Passage: Islesford is a small hamlet located on Little Cranberry Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States.  It is one of the five islands of the town of Cranberry Isles, Maine.  It lies in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Mount Desert Island, which is the site of Acadia National Park.  In 2013 the year round population was about sixty-five.
  Title: The Weight of Water
  Passage: The Weight of Water is a 1997 bestselling novel by Anita Shreve.  Half of the novel is historical fiction based on the Smuttynose Island murders, which took place in 1873.
citations: Smuttynose Island The Weight of Water