A thief is loose aboard HMS Queen Victoria, and four amateur detectives are hell-bent on tracking him down. Unprepared for the evidence that their sleuthing activities will uncover – a reel of compromising film, a blood-soaked stateroom bunk, a lethally sharp razor and an emerald elephant – they find themselves sinking deeper into misadventure and pandemonium.
But when the boat arrives in Southampton harbour, another passenger, mystery writer Henry Morgan, calls in the famous Dr Gideon Fell – who identifies sixteen clues that lead him to the murderer.
But when the boat arrives in Southampton harbour, another passenger, mystery writer Henry Morgan, calls in the famous Dr Gideon Fell – who identifies sixteen clues that lead him to the murderer.