On a twilit autumn night, the Falbright Jenny ferries forty passengers back to Falbright from Elmer's Creek. Except, before the ferry can make it across the River Hore, she ends up marooned on a sand back. Mysteriously, the skipper is no where to be found. But when the pilot's body is later found under the pier, stabbed in the back, local authorities realise this was more than just an accident. Though Scotland Yard's best and brightest, Detective-Inspector...