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The fourth book in the Corinth/Browne Murder Mystery Series. Lord Benyon is on the Queen Mary, bound for New York. It is 1937, and his mission is to persuade President Roosevelt to supply Britain with arms and money if it comes to war with Germany. Those who want him to fail will not stop at murder to achieve their aim. But, when Benyon refuses police protection, Special Branch asks Lord Edward Corinth to keep an unofficial eye on him. However, it is not Benyon who is murdered but a racist senator from South Carolina, who has enraged many of his fellow passengers - not least Warren Fairley, the black singer. But if Fairley is too obvious a candidate, there are other suspects. How about union organiser Sam Forrest, with whom Verity Browne - going to America at the Party's behest to liaise with Communist sympathisers - is so taken? The thrilling denouement is yet another triumph for classic murder-mystery writer David Roberts.
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David Roberts worked in publishing for over thirty years, most recently as a director, before devoting his energies to writing full time. He is married and divides his time between London and Wiltshire.
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Format:Paperback
Any author/publisher that can have the Queen Mary sail into New York in 1937 under the Verrazano Bridge makes the whole of the historical background suspect. Not just this volume, but the whole set has been spoilt for me.
Format:Paperback
It's a lucky, and in Lord Edward Corinth's view, lovely, coincidence that he is asked to be a protective presence to a British diplomat on the Queen Mary ship bound for the Americas at the same time that his lady, the feisty journalist Verity Browne, is also taking the trip to do some reports for the Communist Party.
But the trip soon turns very sour for him. Not only does Verity find her American Communist Party companion rather too fascinating for his liking, his charge is put at risk by a murder on board, there's some powerful passengers with explosive and controversial views, and then the ship hits very stormy waters, where everyone is vulnerable...
This is another great story from David Roberts, set in the lead up to the Second World War, with two main characters who never fail to keep your attention. Lord Edward, though an aristocratic gentleman and rather typically Eton-boy English, still makes mistakes and has to learn by them, which makes him much more human. And Verity, too, grows with each book, from a passionate rather single-sighted young woman into someone just as strong but rather more considering/considerate.
The setting gives the story a traditional locked-room-no-escape feel, and owing to the time of the voyage and their destination, a wisp of the fateful Titanic, too.
But the trip soon turns very sour for him. Not only does Verity find her American Communist Party companion rather too fascinating for his liking, his charge is put at risk by a murder on board, there's some powerful passengers with explosive and controversial views, and then the ship hits very stormy waters, where everyone is vulnerable...
This is another great story from David Roberts, set in the lead up to the Second World War, with two main characters who never fail to keep your attention. Lord Edward, though an aristocratic gentleman and rather typically Eton-boy English, still makes mistakes and has to learn by them, which makes him much more human. And Verity, too, grows with each book, from a passionate rather single-sighted young woman into someone just as strong but rather more considering/considerate.
The setting gives the story a traditional locked-room-no-escape feel, and owing to the time of the voyage and their destination, a wisp of the fateful Titanic, too.
7 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The action in this mystery novel takes place on the maiden voyage of the liner Queen Mary, and the most interesting aspect of the book is the information that the writer provides about the ship. This is lucky because he frequently interrupts the action to take the reader on a tour of the kitchens or some other part of the ship.
Otherwise I found this book boring. There's lots of action, mind you, and at stake is nothing less that the future of the western world prior to World War Two. There are characters from the highest ranks of Britain (the detective is a Lord) and Hollywood. There's lots of action, with a violent storm at sea (get the symbolism? huh?) and dead bodies all over.
I won't reveal the plot because I've forgotten it already, but as you may have guessed the western world was saved by the strength and sagacity of Milord. We are truly fortunate that the British aristocracy has produced so many fine detectives.
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