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This one has grown on me. Alleyn is sent to sea on a cruise (a freighter carring a small number of passengers - as was quite common once) on the hunch that serial killer has shipped for the voyage. The delight in this is the small number of characters interacting as we count down the days to the next outburst. Once again NM shows her anti-gay colours but otherwise really enjoyable read. (

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Singing in the Shrouds

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Miss Katherine Abbott

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The Cape Farewell (ocean steamer)

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In the Pool of London and farther east all through the dockyards the fog lay heavy.

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All aboard for murder

The Cape Farewell steams out to sea, carrying a serial strangler who says it with flowers and a little song. Behind, on a fogbound London dock, lies his latest lovely victim; and on board, working undercover to identify him before he strikes again, is Inspector Roderick Alleyn. But-with a collection of neurotic, bombastic, shifty, and passionate passengers at one another's throats-how long can he keep the investigation on course?

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