Rating: 2/5
When Nancy came to the cruise on the new ship, she wasn’t there for any old reason. She had come to investigate, because she and her friends Bess and George liked to think of her as a crime detective, and that she was. But she wasn’t expecting to find herself as deep in mysteries that it came to her ears; she wasn’t ready to discover a new far-fetched series of strange events, which all have the possibilities of being simply coincidental red herrings.
I found this book quite a bit worse on the inside than it looked from the cover. I am more used to reading old-fashioned classics, so this small, unpopular book was miles away from that. Bess had invited her ‘boyfriend’ Alan round to the cruise as well, and they kept on doing things such as ‘standing hand-in-hand and murmuring soft words to each other’ or something like that. I thought this sort of phrase ruined any paragraph that it was in, which was most of them in the entire book. Towards the end it got better, but obviously not exactly good. Not the sort of story I’d read, but an easy one that can minus a book from a bookshelf.