OCEAN LINER MYSTERIES 1: MURDER ON THE LUSITANIA

A maritime mystery from Edward Marston author of the best-selling Railway Detective series.September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool to New York on the Lusitania's maiden voyage. Posing as a passenger Dillman is in fact an undercover detective hired by the Cunard Line to keep an eye out for petty crimes. But after some uneventful days aboard the ship’s blueprints are stolen and then a body is found.As Dillman works to get to the bottom of the crimes he makes an unusual friend first-class passenger Genevieve Masefield and the two uncover secrets aboard the ship that prove explosive.The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk in 1915 by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland killing 1198 passengers and crew. Lusitania held the Blue Riband prize for the fastest Atlantic crossing and was briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of the Mauretania.Previously published under the name Conrad Allen the Ocean Liner series is relaunched for a new generation of listeners.