New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Duckbacks
2002 Oct-Dec
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Duckbacks
OCT-DEC 2002
Allen Conrad
Murder on the Mauretania
Pbk published December 2002 by Duckbacks at £6.99
ISBN: 0715632124
Period mystery thriller set on board a Cunard steamship in the early part of the last century.
Only a few short months after crossing the Atlantic aboard the Lusitania, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield are back in Liverpool to embark on the first voyage of the Mauretania. Again working undercover as private detectives, the two mingle effortlessly among the ship's other passengers. Soon after it leaves port, the vessel is battered by severe weather that confines the passengers to their cabins. Then one of the passengers vanishes, complicating already unpleasant circumstances. At first believing that the man was simply swept overbaord in the storm, Dillmand and Genevieve soon come to realise that his disappearance is an act of murder. The crime is connected with the presence on board of a record shipment of gold bullion - twelve tons on all - sent from the Bank of England to help bolster a precarious American economy. The two have their hands full. Apart from coping with dozens of problems thrown up by the violent weather, they have to solve a murder, catch the thieves, and retrieve the stolen bullion, all without breaking their covers.
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Allen Conrad
Murder on the Lusitania
Pbk published December 2002 by Duckbacks at £6.99
ISBN: 0715632132
Period mystery thriller set on board a Cunard steamship in the early part of the last century.
In 1907, the world applauds as the Cunard Line launches a history-making ship. The magnificent Lusitania, hoping to capture the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing from Liverpool to New York, attracts both the beautiful and the damned for its maiden voyage. Among its privileged passengers strolls the debonair American George Porter Dillman, a shipbuilder's son - and a detective secretly hired to find the con artists, gigolos, and thieves who prey on the rich and unwary. But the robbery of the ship's blueprints and a shocking murder take Dillman by surprise. Now, attracted to a lady who may not be what she seems, Dillman plunges into a drama of love and intrigue set in the glittering salons of this floating palace. And perhaps plays right into a killer's hands...
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