Previously published under the name Conrad Allen, the Ocean Liner series is relaunched for a new generation of readers. 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. The George Porter Dillman & Genevieve Masefield book series by Conrad Allen includes books Murder on the Lusitania, Murder on the Mauretania: A Mystery Featuring George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield (A Mystery Featuring George Porter Dillman & Genevieve Masefield), Murder on the Minnesota: A Mystery Featuring George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield (George Porter Dillman and. The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk in 1915 by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. But after some uneventful days aboard, the ship's blueprints are stolen and then a body is found.Īs 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. Posing as a passenger, Dillman is in fact an undercover detective hired by the Cunard Line to keep an eye out for petty crimes. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool to New York on the Lusitania's maiden voyage. A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series. Among its privileged passengers strolls the debonair American George Porter Dillman, a detective secretly hired to find the con artists, gigolos, and thieves.
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