The Freak Island Murders

Trade paperback. Even as the ocean liner Maryland cruises its way from England to its Hawaiian destination, there are the seeds of intrigue on board. The vessel flounders when it hits a hurricane and one boat of survivors makes it miraculously to the nearby island of Tiero. As luck would have it, the island is inhabited - though the residents are not what the Maryland’s passengers expect or welcome. Dr. Julius Masterman has established a medical institute on Tiero to research cures for congenitally-deformed individuals - thus the local population is largely made up of malformed refugees from ‘normal’ society. Hence Tiero’s sobriquet: Freak Island. What are the chances that the ship’s survivors are connected with the people of Freak Island? And what are the chances of murder?