Kay (Australia) (2007/11/22): First published 1958. "The scene of the crime is a small steamer sailing to the West Indies. A number of accidents occur. The remarkably varied and richly comic passenger list includes an alcoholic major, an alarmingly virile countertenor, an architect, and a middle-aged conductor who is responsible for finding the subtle but inexorably logical solution - clinched by a final dramatic turn of teh screw as ingenious as it is unexpected.