During World War II, Germany had a secret weapon – a cricket team. Defeating the MCC would crush British morale. But they could not get a fixture. At the end of the war, the cricket team vanished. But in 1953, people who know part of the story of the SS Cricket Team are mysteriously gathered on a German cruise ship sailing out of Baltimore named, coincidentally, the SS Cricketteam. Then, one by one, they are murdered. Who is doing it? And why? And what is the secret destination of the voyage…