Newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfield is a lovely English girl hoping for a bit of adventure in London. But she struggles upon more than she bargained for! Anne is on the platform at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying instantly. A doctor examines the man, pronounces him dead, and leaves, dropping a note on his way. Anne picks up the note, which reads "17.1 22 Kilmorden Castle". The next day the newspapers declare that a gorgeous ballet dancer has been discovered dead there brutally strangled. A tremendous fortune in diamonds has disappeared. And now, aboard the extravagance liner Kilmorden Castle, spooky strangers loot her cabin and try to choke her. What are they looking for? Why should they want her dead? Lovely Anne is the last person on earth suited to solve this mystery... and the only one who can! Anne's journey to untwist the mystery takes her as far afield as Africa and the strain mounts with every step... And Anne finds herself toiling to unmask a faceless assassin known only as 'The Colonel.' “A Colourful Murder Mystery”