Murder On "B" Deck
$22.41
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
The perfect beach read, this classic Golden Age murder mystery is set on a 1920s transatlantic ocean liner ship.
Originally published in 1929, a Golden Age classic murder mystery set on a cruise ship - the perfect holiday read!
Everyone is a suspect.
When a beautiful countess is found strangled in her cabin aboard the luxury liner Latakia, scientist, explorer, and former intelligence officer Walter Ghost tries to find the killer. He has a taste for puzzles and a habit …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804999486 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804999482 |
| Author: | Vincent Starrett, Otto Penzler |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
‘Starrett makes the most of the setting and populates it with an array of potential suspects. This definitely merits being labeled an American Mystery classic.’ * Publishers Weekly *
‘Starrett was a Holmes expert, and this first of three Walter Ghost novels, published in 1929, delivers a thoroughly entertaining spin on the theme of a big-brained amateur sleuth and his admiring sidekick.’ * Booklist *
About The Author
Vincent Starrett
Vincent Starrett (1886-1974) was a Chicago journalist who became one of the world’s foremost experts on Sherlock Holmes. A books columnist for the Chicago Tribune, he also wrote biographies of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Ambrose Bierce, various books on books and book collecting, plus Sherlockian pastiches and numerous short stories and novels. A founding member of the Baker Street Irregulars, he is perhaps known best today for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, an imaginative biography of the great detective.
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