Burke, Jan "Miscalculation"

An evocative “murder” mystery set aboard the contemporary Long Beach, Calif.-based museum ship QUEEN MARY, with flashbacks to the ship’s World War 2 career as a troopship. Burke’s descriptions of today’s QUEEN MARY are accurate and dead-on. And her “murder” angle (who would have been morally responsible for the deaths of troops aboard the ship who’d succumbed to heat stroke while sailing in the tropics in the overcrowded vessel?) is intriguing. This one’s easily the “best of show” in Block’s anthology.