Book description
1931. The new, luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of
Britain is on her eastward passage. Among the first-class
passengers on board are two English confidence tricksters, making a
discreet exit from a scam they have left behind them in the United
States. A chance meting on deck brings them a tempting new target in
the shape of the beautiful and wealthy heiress, Diana Charnwood.
It's a trick they've pulled before, with some success. Charm the
daughter into an engagement to marry, then get the father to buy you
off. So confident are they of success, in fact, that they make a pact:
whichever of them wins Diana Charnwood's love will share his fortune
with the other.
But a violent death is to interrupt their neat little scheme. And
they find themselves stumbling into something much darker than either
had suspected...
Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire. He read History at Cambridge
and worked as an educational administrator in Devon before becoming a
full-time novelist. He is the author of many bestselling novels,
including Into the Blue which won the first WH Smith Thumping Good Read
Award and was dramatized for TV in 1997, starring John Thaw.
