The Crime of the 'Liza Jane — Fergus Hume

Douglas Fairfax has always yearned for adventure, which is why he relished the opportunity to be taken on as ship's doctor aboard the Seeker. But Doctor Fairfax is in for a more macabre voyage than he bargained for, as he discovers when a small pleasure craft, the 'Liza Jane is found adrift -- its only occupant dead from a stab wound. Who is the dead man? And how is he related to the ship's Captain? And could there be a connection to an anarchist plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament?

Turning detective and continuing his investigations on land, Fairfax's sleuthing leads him to a gloomy cliff-top house, where he must untangle a complex web of romance and intrigue...

Originally published in 1895, this is a fast-paced Late-Victorian detective story, from the author of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.