Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Crime & Thrillers, Fiction, International Fiction, Adult, New Releases
ISBN: 9781804999486
Published: May 2026
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 256
Format: Paperback
RRP 295.00

Murder On “B” Deck

Vincent Starrett, Otto Penzler

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Originally published in 1929, a Golden Age classic murder mystery set on a cruise ship - the perfect holiday read!

Everyone is a suspect.

When a beautiful countess is found strangled in her cabin aboard the luxury liner Latakia, scientist, explorer, and former intelligence officer Walter Ghost tries to find the killer. He has a taste for puzzles and a habit of getting into trouble, but now he's trapped in a game he doesn't know if he can win.

Anyone could be next.

Confined to the close quarters of 'B' deck, with a group of paranoid passengers, Walter must solve this one quickly - and find the killer before someone else gets scratched off the passenger list.

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About the Author

Vincent Starrett

Vincent Starrett

Vincent Starrett (1886–1974) was a Chicago journalist who became one of the world’s foremost experts on Sherlock Holmes. A books columnist for the Chicago Tribune, he also wrote biographies of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Ambrose Bierce, various books on books and book collecting, plus Sherlockian pastiches and numerous short stories and novels. A founding member of the Baker Street Irregulars, he is perhaps known best today for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, an imaginative biography of the great detective.

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Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler owns The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and founded the Mysterious Press and Otto Penzler Books. He has written and edited several books, including the Edgar Award-winning Encyclopaedia of Mystery and Detection, and is the series editor of the annual Best American Mystery Stories of the Year.

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