Plot

Jessica narrates a story from 40 years ago when another female mystery writer helped to solve a mysterious murder aboard the Queen Mary.

In her garden, after reading about Lady Abigail Austin's death at age 101, Jessica tells how the mystery writing model once solved a real murder aboard the Queen Mary in 1947. Peter Daniken collapsed at her and millionaire Edwin Chancellor's table, stabbed to death. Questioned by New York reporter Christy McGinn, she volunteers her services to help him and waves her badge as honorary Scotland yard reporter to get access to his father, NYPD Lieutenant Detective Martin McGinn. U.S. Treasury Agent Lennihan informs them Danikin was an alias for a Nazi smuggling a counterfeit five-dollar plate.—KGF Vissers

After the death of murder mystery writer Lady Abigail Austen at the age of 101, Jessica recounts the story a real-life mystery Austen encountered when traveling to the U.S. in 1947 aboard the Queen Mary. One day out New York, one of the passengers, wine merchant Peter Daniken, staggers into the lounge and promptly dies of a stab wound. Daniken was traveling as a Dane but was in fact German and a former Gestapo officer. Working with aspiring journalist and amateur detective Christy McGinn, Lady Austen finds there is no shortage of suspects. She comes up with her own solution to the crime, as do fellow passenger Edwin Chancellor and McGinn. Only one will have it right however.—garykmcd