It might have been a shipboard romance, but there's far more to it than that when 19-year-old Jocelyn Frey confesses her love for John Killian, a clerk returning to New York on the same ship. The web of intrigue grows tighter as Jocelyn is pushed overboard...and accuses John of doing it. And then she confesses that there are 5 people on board who want her dead. Blackmail, romance, madness, and murder collide in a powerful novel by one of the greats of the Golden Age of Mystery.