A young bride, married to a much older man, sets out on a cruise to the Caribbean. Pretty soon she becomes suspicious of the man in the next cabin--who may be trying to murder his wife! To make things worse, her own husband is acting even more strangely than usual and has no sympathy at all for her suspicions. Luckily, there are other interesting passengers she can try her ideas out on. The book, written in an old-fashioned style as a third person narrative solely from the young wife's point of view, is pretty absorbing, but the ending, despite a few unexpected curves, doesn't completely satisfy. Still, Holding is an interesting writer and does a great job of taking us to a different time and place, though it was contemporary to her. Several of her books are available for free on munseys.com, but her most often praised book, THE BLANK WALL, is not. I will probably seek it out one of these days. ( )