BABSON, Marian - The Cruise of a Deathtime - (Hardcover in Jacket)

(NO MORE THAN 5 BOOKS PER ORDER OR PARCEL ALLOWED) - This scarce 1983 title was published by Collins Crime Club - 181 pg. - First Edition - Used to belong to a library but book and wrapper still good.   >>>    A ten-day cruise from Miami to Nhumbala, Africa, with more than 500 passengers aboard the "Empress Josephine," sails into treachery, panic, and twenty-six murders.   >>>   Welcome to the Empress Josephine and a transoceanic experience of good food, lavish entertainment, fun and surprises - lots of surprises. The first comes when a key officer fails to make the sailing. Next, two suicides are discovered at once, followed by three recumbent corpses by the skeet-shooting area. One on the first day, two on the second, three on the third: the pattern is all too frighteningly clear. But who is committing murder on the bounding main? While the crew struggles to maintain decorum and passengers keep turning up missing, the killer suddenly issues a chilling demand. With the ship's radio smashed and a civil war engulfing the port of destination, the crew and passengers have no choice but to do as they are told, as their cruise of a lifetime turns into a titanic trip of death.