A classy blond, a beautiful yacht, an island in the Bahamas—every man's dream. But for Ingram it's a nightmare.It starts when he agrees to help find Dragoon, a vanished schooner. The money isn't much—but the statuesque blond who hires him is! Now it looks like he's going to get deep-sixed. Run hard aground, pinned down by rifle fire and sitting on top of a bilge full of gasoline, something's going to blow! "One of the great tales of this or any other era!" (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

John and Rae Ingram are alone on their honeymoon yacht in the Pacific, becalmed. It shoud be idyllic. . .but it's not. On the near horizon a ship is sinking. They rescue its lone passenger, a young man who claims he buried his wife and another couple, dead from food poisoning. But suspicion gnaws at Ingram, a suspicion only too soon justified. Soon Ingram and his wife are nearly overside with the killer's other victims! "A brilliant tour de force ... breathtaking." (The New York Times)