King receives a blood-stained parcel from Eric Svenson asking him to deliver it to his niece, Aline, who is an attractive and officious female third mate on a Norwegian ship. When Eric disappears King asks Aline to help find him. The package contains a ship in a bottle called the Bonhomme Richard, and when a man wants to pay a large amount of money for the bottle Aline is suspicious. Eric turns up dead and Aline is kidnapped as the criminals go after what is in the bottle.
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