Patti S. (Pattakins) reviewed on 7/9/2010 + 365 more book reviews

This is the sixth episode of the Shipboard Mystery series

It is May 1909.
George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield have been married a couple of months but for work purposes they continue they pretend that they are business partners only. They are undercover detectives for the passenger ships that carried people across the oceans. No longer working just the transatlantic routes of the Cunard Line, the pair are once again on a P & O ship, this time the Salsette which makes four day runs between Aden and Bombay.

The wealth of the First and Second class passengers on these voyages has attracted thieves who attempt to divert some of it into their own pockets by various means. George and Genevieve have become quite adept at spotting card sharks, pickpockets, con artists and common thieves, they have even solved an astonishing numbers of murders. This trip proves to be no exception as they meet the usual cast of suspects, the over eager steward, the colonial colonel and his arrogant wife, an Indian mystic, a blowhard politician and his bullied family and others familiar characters from various books and films.

of course, a murder will occur, an innocent person will be accused and our heroes will triumph before the ship arrives at its destination are foregone conclusions. As always with the cozy genre the true attraction is the ongoing backstory between George and Genevieve.

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