Baxter, Gregory Death Strikes at Six Bells.

Two murders occur aboard the fictitious liner MOOLKUNDA off the coast of Port Said during her homeward voyage from India. Baxter’s plot starts off realistic, but soon veers into the realm of 1930s fantasy. It all has something to do with the "Third International" - - a shadowy "Bolshevik" movement - - attempting to steal the royal regalia of a Raj princely state. Coded anti-Semitism (Baxter's villain is Paul Baruch, described as "a mongrel product of the Levant") adds to the decided period feel of the book. Baxter's writing style is so "terribly top-drawer, stiff-upper-lip what" that it today reads as parody, though probably didn't appear so outlandish back in 1934 when the book first appeared.