Murder on the QE2 — Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

A QUEEN-SIZE SLAYING

Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove, Main's acclaimed mystery writer, finds herself in treacherous waters when a dream voyage on the transatlantic luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 becomes a nightmare journey into danger.

Jessica has accepted an offer that seems too good to be true. All she has to do for a fabulous free trip on the QU2 is give a pair of lectures on the art of mystery and script a play to entertain her fellow passengers. But when a legendary leading lady is slain, the drama turns deadly. Jessica barely has time for champagne and caviar as she sorts through suspects who include a TV mogul and his trophy wife, a famed Italian chef, a dashing mountain climber, the judge in a notorious California murder trial, and a boatload of other beautiful people with ugly secrets. When murder strikes again, Jessica must combine her sleuthing skills with her writing talents to craft the masterpiece of her mystery-solving career -- before the world's premier floating palace sinks in a sea of blood.