Synopsis

The task fell to him: to sell the late Captain’s medals. A stylish photographer expressed keen interest, but fate, it seemed, had a more convoluted path in mind. A boisterous crew of sailors stumbled into his life, and with them, the formidable Angelo Pantaloni, a man who favored weaponry and a decidedly unsavory demeanor. The matter of Captain Bucknall’s burial at sea – the place of his former housekeeper’s brother – became inextricably tangled with the fate of those medals, plunging him into a