Captain Qi Zang and her motley crew, aboard the Chinese ice freighter Frozen Beauty make landfall in Delhi, and run straight into British Customs officers. Unfortunately not all her cargo is ice, nor is it entirely legal. Catch the first "Astounding Story of Adventure". It's a TV series in book form.

Why are things never simple? Captain Qi Zang and her crew are on their way from Delhi to Kerala when their ice cargo ship is brought down in a storm. And then the local army mistake them for bandits. The only way out is to help the owner of the local plantation rescue her lover from a forced marriage. Assuming the army don;t throw them in jail.

An airship off course. A crew losing their marbles. A creeping horror. Having finally made it to Ceylon, Captain Qi and the motley crew of the Frozen Beauty picks up a simple job: carrying Dr Morbury, a botanist, and his cargo up the coast to Bombay. Nothing could be simpler. But the trip turns into a nightmare as one by one the crew succumb to a strange disease. Until only the youngest member of the crew, Fanning, is left in his (or her) right mind. "Dr Morbury's Cargo" is third in the Frozen Beauty stories: a TV series in book form.