A body is found floating in a tidal river - a memento from an historic wreck is found in the clothing. A recent widower and his jilted niece have had a break-in at their boathouse. Sloan and Crosby have to identify the body and work out how and why the victim ended up murdered - did he know too much?
"Catherine Aird is the pseudonym of novelist Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. She is the author of more than twenty crime fiction novels and several collections of short stories." - Wikipedia
