Singing in the Shrouds

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?