by Patrick Quentin · Editions du Masque · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702416488
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«L'Assassin est à bord» is the mystery novel by Patrick Quentin, published by Editions du Masque in paperback (219 pages, in French).
Reporter Mary Llewellyn travels on a cruise ship to recover from an operation. A businessman dies poisoned with strychnine during a bridge game and another passenger disappears in a storm, so Mary decides to investigate across the ship before becoming the next victim.
Novel originally appeared as S.S. Murder in 1933. This French edition (1985) belongs to the collection «les maîtres du roman policier».
For readers of classic crime fiction, with a murder in the closed space of a cruise ship.
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Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler, Richard Wilson Webb, Martha Mott Kelley and Mary Louise White Aswell wrote detective fiction. In some foreign countries their books have been published under the variant Quentin Patrick. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. Their most famous creation is the amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. In 1949, the book Puzzle for Pilgrims won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière International Prize, the most prestigious award for crime and detective fiction in France.
