Synopsis

The salt spray stung Detective Inspector Davies’ face as he surveyed the scene. A small fishing vessel bobbed gently in the harbor, an incongruous tableau against the backdrop of whitewashed buildings and azure sea. Inside, sprawled across a worn cot, lay a man – unconscious, yet somehow radiating a palpable aura of unease. The man, later identified as Ricardo Alvarez, a retired captain of a Spanish trading vessel, had apparently been found adrift. He’d mumbled something about a curse, a deb