Murder on the Salsette: Ocean Liner, Book 6

by Edward Marston, James Langton (Narrator)

Bombay, 1909. Genevieve Masefield and George Dillman make a living as detectives aboard the early twentieth century's most extravagant ocean liners. From the members of first class in all their finery, to the card cheats and pickpockets plying their trade, they've experienced more than their share of humanity.

For their latest voyage, the Salsette boasts a pair of travellers who feign ignorance of each other but there is clearly no love lost between them. Then there’s an elderly man whose powers of deduction may be based on more earthly techniques than the mystical energy he claims to possess. And there's a young woman and her mother who find their way into the middle of every bit of trouble aboard. The lives of this group of travellers are set to intersect in ways none of them could have foreseen on dry land – including in a murder.

Previously published under the name Conrad Allen, the Ocean Liner series casts off for a new generation of readers.

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Published June 8, 2023

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

A pseudonym used by Keith Miles
AKA A.E. Marston

Keith Miles (born 1940) is an English author, who writes under his own name and also historical fiction and mystery novels under the pseudonym Edward Marston. He is known for his mysteries set in the world of Elizabethan theatre. He has also written a series of novels based on events in the Domesday Book, a series of The Railway Detective and a series of The Home Front Detective.


Series contributed to:
. Malice Domestic
. Crime Through Time
. Perfectly Criminal

Reviews

[Robert Hepple · Rating 4 out of 5]

First published in 2005, 'Murder on the Salsette' is the 6th in the Ocean Liner series of murder mysteries following the fortunes of a pair of detectives employed to work on Ocean Liners during the pre-WWI period. The plot follows very much the style in previous entries in the series, with eccentric characters, pre-war class distinction attitudes, all operating around a murder and other crimes within the closed environment of a ship at sea. Perhaps the characters are a little two-dimensional at times, but a fun read all the same.