Book 20: The Unicorn Voyage

May 1931

Meet Lowan, a telepathic alien working as a private detective in the 1930s!

A transatlantic escort turns deadly when thieves, impostors, and murder stalk a priceless museum relic.

When the unicorn staff, a historical artifact valued at up to a million dollars, needs to be transported to the British Museum, Scotland Yard requests help from the Milford Falls police. After guarding the staff on previous occasions, Detective Lieutenant Marx is assigned to the British delegation. Lowan accompanies them as a special courier consultant. What should be practically a vacation, a first-class cruise aboard the RMS Sovereign, becomes a circle of suspicion: jewelry goes missing, a masked gunman opens fire in the purser’s vault, and a professor who pried into the artifact’s past is found murdered.

While a gunman roams the corridors, evading a ship-wide search, Marx guards the staff in the purser’s vault. Lowan investigates a limited cast of suspects: an unlikable woman with too much jewelry, her shy and nervous companion, a pair of distracted newlyweds, and a widow in black surrounded by rumors. Marx finds himself out of his element among the luxurious surroundings, and Lowan has his own secret to hide—Sen insisted on accompanying him as a stowaway.

Lowan and Marx must piece together a web of impostors, accomplices, and darker motives while Sen lurks belowdecks. Will the staff reach the British Museum intact, or will its passage be sealed in blood?

S. E. Grosskopf’s writing is strongly influenced by the old pulp fiction magazines and Golden Age radio dramas of the 1930s-1950s. If you like fast-paced action and mystery with a dash of urban fantasy and quirkiness, then you’ll love these books. This is the twenty-first book in the series. The books follow chronologically. Reading them in order is recommended.

Status: Available in August