While on a grand tour Pendergast and Constance learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast takes up the search which leads them to the maiden voyage of the Queen Victoria.

The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would love to solve, but a prior commitment puts her on a transatlantic cruise. She shouldn't have fretted. The clues to the crime are following her on the Queen Guinevere. Here, on a ship awash with secret lovers, a fortune...

"The 1950s vintage ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, among them Christine Thorne, a former journalist turned Maine farmer, it's a chance to experience the bygone mid-20th century era of decadent luxury cruising, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones--or children, for that matter. The...

Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer explores the Titanic and forms a brief friendship with another passenger before experiencing the wreck of the giant ocean liner. One of the world's most well-known historic events, the sinking of the "Titanic" in 1912 grippingly unfolds in this story told from the perspectives of 17-year-old Jack Thayer, a passenger, and 22-year-old Harold Bride, the ship's junior wireless operator.

Husband and wife George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield are detectives aboard the Oceanic. J.P. Morgan is aboard, with a fabulous trove of valuables, and his own security. His bodyguard is killed, and the baubles are burgled. A cast of rakes, snobs, conmen, artists, stewards and aristocrats make up the cast of this story of shipboard sleuthing.

"Nightclub singer Lena Aldridge had planned to jump ship before her past caught up with her--only to find a killer has followed her onboard the Queen Mary in this thrilling locked-room mystery. London 1936. Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn't worked out. Instead, she's stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho and her married lover has just dumped her. But Lena has always...

Septuagenarian sleuth Julia Clancy investigates murder aboard the luxury ocean liner, Queen Victoria, which is making its maiden voyage across the Atlantic. The victim is a member of a British trade commission. By the author of The Garden Plot.

"For the passengers aboard the Latakia, the transatlantic journey from New York to Cherbourg promises weeks of rest and relaxation, no matter what class of ticket they have. But after an Italian baroness is found strangled in her cabin, the situation on board becomes more tense. The main suspect soon goes overboard, creating more questions than answers: Did a guilty conscience spur a suicidal act, or was he a witness silenced by the true killer,...

The American ocean liner Columbia is recommissioned in the early 1970s. Success of the ship depends on getting Congressional subsidies and impressing travel agents, but is jeopardized by conflict between the ship's Commodore, a war hero with little knowledge of passenger service, and the Staff Captain, a capable ship's captain. The conflict climaxes when the Columbia is caught in a hurricane during a trial run with prominent passengers as guests.

An extortionist has placed bombs aboard an ocean liner, demanding money to tell where the explosives are.