A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling
Railway Detective series.
September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool to New York on
the Lusitania's maiden voyage. Posing as a passenger, Dillman is in
fact an undercover detective hired by the Cunard Line to keep an eye out
for petty crimes. But after some uneventful days aboard, the ship's
blueprints are stolen and then a body is found.
As Dillman works to get to the bottom of the crimes, he makes an unusual
friend, first-class passenger Genevieve Masefield, and the two uncover
secrets aboard the ship that prove explosive.
The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk in 1915 by a
German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and
crew. Lusitania held the Blue Riband prize for the fastest Atlantic
crossing and was briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the
completion of the Mauretania.
Previously published under the name Conrad Allen, the Ocean Liner series
is relaunched for a new generation of readers.