Publisher's Synopsis
New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world's most luxurious trans-Atlantic liners, departs for Liverpool and war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in Her Majesty's government tasked with discreetly escorting a British diplomat back to England in relation to charges of suspected treason.When a fellow passenger, Jimmy Dowrich, is found shot to death in his cabin, the captain asks Gallagher to investigate. Knowing something of the man's past, Gallagher realizes that the problem will not be simple. Indeed, the body was discovered in a locked cabin with the key inside - and no gun to be found. Gallagher believes that one of his fellow passengers is a deadly killer. But many of those on board are harbouring secrets of their own, and several had a motive to end Dowrich's life.
