There’s something fishy about the HMS Battletore, a training ship designed to give young hoodlums a chance at new lives. When Miss Jane Marple goes aboard to investigate, she discovers it’s a training ship, all right: someone’s training the delinquents to be good thieves instead of good citizens.

And that someone would kill to keep the fact quiet! Murder may be at sea But Miss Marple never is in this sparkling mystery starring Margaret Rutherord as Agatha Christie’s endearing old-lady sleuth. Murder Ahoy features a rouge’s gallery of suspects and ingenious means of dispatching victims, including strychnine-laced snuff, a noose from a yardarm and a poisoned mousetrap. But Miss Marle prevail? Well, let’s just say it was a good thing she was Ladies National Fencing Champion of 1931!