Ship of Fools (novel)


 * For the comic strip featuring Kroton see Ship of Fools (comic strip)

Publisher's summary
'So who do I have to kill to get off this cruise?'

When Krytell Industries offered Benny a small, slightly dubious and, um, unofficial job aboard the majestic space cruise-liner, the Titanian Queen, she jumped at the chance. After all, with an unlimited expense account, an entire new wardrobe and more strings of pearls and other jewels than you could shake an Art Deco stick at, what more could a poor girl want?

That was then.

Now, the luckless if remarkably deserving passengers of the Titanian Queen are dropping like flies. Are the deaths the work of the mysterious criminal known as the Cat's Paw? Or is the super-rich businessman Krytell himself somehow involved? And will the great detective, Emil Dupont, finally stop getting things completely and utterly wrong and solve it all in time for tea and muffins?

Whatever's happening, Benny had better discover the truth for herself, and discover it soon. Before she suddenly finds herself another highly deplorable crime statistic.

Characters

 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Has been sent a review copy of Franz Kryptosa's Lost Gods and the Fall of Empire.


 * Irving Braxiatel
 * Drinks Albareran claret from the 24th century.


 * Marcus Krytell


 * Isabel Blaine (aka Cat's Paw)


 * ARVID
 * Is an artificial intelligence.


 * Emil Dupont


 * Captain Iolanthe Crane

Continuity

 * The Cat's Paw was previously mentioned in BNA: Oh No It Isn't!, Dragons' Wrath and Beyond the Sun.
 * The Czhans previously appeared in NA: Death and Diplomacy.
 * There is a vague reference to NA: Return of the Living Dad in that Benny didn't know her father until late in her life.
 * Franz Kryptosa was first mentioned in BNA: Dragons' Wrath and appears in Down.