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Book Review of Death Cruise (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

Death Cruise (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
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This is one of the best TC books I've read. This mother and her two daughters are vacationing together, and they take a cruise on a private boat, never to return. The killer rapes them, then ties a weight around their neck, and throws them overboard. This is particularly horrible, because, as the author points out, the second and third one killed had to watch the others die. Detectives come up with a very innovative strategy for finding their suspect...they enlarge a hand-written note, which they believe the killer might have written, and post it on a billboard, asking anyone who recognises the handwriting to call police.