The second book in the Palmetto Trilogy picks up where Call to Arms"" left off, as Allard Tyler and Barnaby Yorke limp into Nassua with their heavily damaged ship, the ""Ghost."" A fateful voyage climaxes at Nassau, where mayhem and death and indiscretions combine in a harrowing struggle for life and hope.""

DEATH AND THE NAKED LADY

Mac McLean, successful international singer, boards the DauphinE on his way to New York, unaware that his patron, Georges Fournier, has just been murdered in Paris. But death is also on the passenger list of the luxury liner as it makes its way across the Atlantic. It starts innocently enough when McLean finds a case under his bed filled with Fournier's precious jade figurines.

Everyone seems interested in these statuettes. Lady Harcourt, playing around on her husband Albert, is intrigued when she finds them under McLean's bed. The...