Death on the Lusitania

The ship was doomed before it ever left port. His fate was sealed before he ever stepped on board. From R. L. Graham, Death on the Lusitania is an immersive WW1 historical novel set aboard the ill-fated ocean liner. ''Set on a doomed ocean liner, this engaging and well researched mystery is sure to appeal to lovers of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers'' - Philip Gray, author of Two Storm Wood , The Times Thriller of the Year Welcome on board the Lusitania ''s final voyage . . . New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world''s most luxurious ocean liners, departs for war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in Her Majesty''s government tasked with escorting a British diplomat back to England. When a fellow passenger is believed to have shot himself in his cabin, Gallagher is asked by the captain to investigate the scene but one crucial detail doesn''t fit. The man''s body was discovered in a locked cabin with the key inside and no gun to be found. Was it really suicide? Or murder? Gallagher believes one of the passengers is a deadly killer who could strike again to protect their true reasons for being on board. And all the while, the ship sails on towards Europe, where deadly submarines patrol dark waters . . .

Product details

• Authors: R L Graham, R. L. Graham
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.01.2024
• EAN: 9781035036646
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3503664-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Patrick Gallagher
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Crime, Historical fiction, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, FICTION / Historical / World War I, FICTION / Disaster, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1910 to c 1919, Classic crime and mystery fiction, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Atlantic Coast of Ireland, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages