Mystery Mile

Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a marked man – within the span of a month, his secretary has been shot, his butler poisoned, his chauffeur killed in a mysterious accident, and his walking companion felled by a falling stone. Each time, the judge has escaped by a miracle. Persuaded by his son Marlowe to leave America and travel to Europe for his own safety, Crowdy crosses the Atlantic with his children – only for the attempts on his life to follow him. But Albert Campion, fellow passenger on the ELEPHANTINE, has noticed certain suspicious goings-on – and offers the Lobbetts his investigative services…

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Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a marked man – within the span of a month, his secretary has been shot, his butler poisoned, his chauffeur killed in a mysterious accident, and his walking companion felled by a falling stone. Each time, the judge has escaped by a miracle. Persuaded by his son Marlowe to leave America and travel to Europe for his own safety, Crowdy crosses the Atlantic with his children – only for the attempts on his life to follow him. But Albert Campion, fellow passenger on the ELEPHANTINE, has noticed certain suspicious goings-on – and offers the Lobbetts his investigative services…