A first class murder Book

#9: Eleanor and her secretary, Tommy Thompson, are returning from Paris to USA on Normandie, the pride of the French cruise line, at request of French government in late Sept. 1938. Also aboard are Charles Lindbergh, Jack Benny and his wife, Mary Livingston, Harvard student John F. Kennedy, Josephine Baker, journalist Henry Luce, Moira Lasky a "professional lady" escorted by German wine and Brandy broker, Ernest Richter Renee, Soviet Ambassador Troyanoskii and his mistress/protégée, a young ballerina, Nina Rozanov. Almost all are present at the after dinner gathering in the Ambassador's deluxe suite adjoining Eleanor's when the Ambassador dies of Strychnine poisoning. Jack Benny and JFK are sampling Vodka from the same bottle from the Ambassador's private stock and are not effected. When Nina is accused of the murder, Eleanor and Jack join Mssr Edouard Ouzoulias, the onboard police de sûrétè detective, in his investigation of the murder and other disturbing happenings on the luxury ship.