With this novel of mounting tension among apparently normal people, Ngaio Marsh achieved a triumph on a level with her most famous detective novels Surfeit of Lampreys, Scales of Justice and Off With His Head. On a cold February night the police find the third corpse on the quayside in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. The killer walked away, singing. When the cargo ship, Cape Farewell, sets sail, she carries nine passengers, one of whom is known to be the murderer. Which is why Superintendent Roderick Alleyn joins the ship at Portsmouth on the most difficult assignment of his professional career!
- ISBN10 0312968884
- ISBN13 9780312968885
- Publish Date 15 March 1999 (first published October 1967)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 12 February 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Minotaur Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 240
- Language English