NineAnd Death Makes Ten Author:Carter Dickson They were an odd number- — Those nine passengers, each with his own peculiar reason for embarking on this strange and frightening Atlantic crossing. They included a newspaperman, trying to get back his lost nerve; a talkative member of the New York police department; a rather overblown blonde, wrapped in sable; a supercilious (and very seasick) y... more »oung woman; a French army captain; the young son of a British lord; a doctor; and a British business man with a hard-to-remember face.
Before long, one of them was violently dead.
Luckily, passenger number nine--although rather short-tempered and anti-social--was that altogether clever solver of the insoluble: Sir Henry Merrivale!« less