Always Kill a Stranger

Captain Jose Da Silva Mystery #6

by Robert L. Fish

The radio reports of the sudden tropical storm into which the freighter was heading caused the captain to order a change of course. The news made little difference to the four passengers, but to the dining room steward who was traveling under a false passport it came as a sickening shock. It he could not jump ship in Rio the next day as he intended, the fortune that waited him there would be lost.

Genres: Mystery

189 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Robert Lloyd Fish was an American writer of crime fiction. His first novel, The Fugitive, gained him the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first novel in 1962, and his short story "Moonlight Gardener" was awarded the Edgar for best short story in 1972. His 1963 novel Mute Witness, written under the pseudonym Robert L. Pike, was filmed in 1968 as Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen.