Clark, Mary Higgins,

All by myself, alone : a novel / Mary Higgins Clark. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - x, 321 pages ; 24 cm. - Alvirah and Willy. . - Clark, Mary Higgins. Alvirah and Willy. .

Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention by lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship - the Queen Charlotte. On board she meets eighty-six-year-old Lady Emily Haywood. Immensely wealthy, Lady Em is the owner of a priceless emerald necklace that she intends to leave to the Smithsonian after the cruise. Three days out to sea Lady Em is found dead - and the necklace is missing. Is it the work of her apparently devoted assistant, Brenda Martin, or her lawyer-executor, Roger Pearson, and his wife, Yvonne? Or is it Professor Henry Longworth, an acclaimed Shakespeare scholar who is lecturing on board? Or Alan Davidson, a guest on the ship who is planning to spread his wife's ashes at sea? The list of suspects is large and growing. Celia, with the help of her new friends Willy and Alvirah Meehan sets out to find the killer, not realizing that she has put herself in mortal danger before the ship reaches its final destination.

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Meehan, Willy (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Meehan, Alvirah (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Ocean travel--Fiction.
Jewelry theft--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Blessing and cursing--Fiction.
Cruise ships--Fiction.


Detective and mystery fiction.

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