Download or read book Crimes against Americans on cruise ships written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Cruise written by Lawrence Block and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects stories written by such members of the International Association of Crime Writers as Agatha Christie, Nancy Pickard, John Lutz, Piet Teigeler, Barbara Collins, Jan Burke, and John Mortimer.
Download or read book Fire Cruise written by Ken Rossignol and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IF YOUR BACKYARD GRILL CATCHES FIRE...you can get a hose and put it out...if your ship catches fire... DANGER LURKS ON EVERY VOYAGE - what the cruise lines don't want you to know - how to be safe on your cruise. Crew with criminal backgrounds, drug dealers and mules carrying drugs on the ship, crime at the ports of the Caribbean and the biggest danger of all - fire on cruise ships. Learn about the one small item you should bring that fits in your pocket. Read this book before booking a cruise.
Download or read book Cruise Ship Crime written by Paul Davis and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Alan Mayhew is a retired cruise ship doctor who's about to go on--a cruise! He's grieving the loss of his wife, and his family feels a cruise is just what he needs to move on--to take his mind off of missing her. Once on bored, he meets some of the eclectic folks that make up the passengers and the crew including Tiffany, the beautiful cruise ship director. With her, Dr. Mayhew helps solve a series of on board crimes, including a murder.
Download or read book Cruising for Trouble written by Mark Gaouette and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-03-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an alarming inside look at the security preparations of the cruise industry and the potential for cruise ships to be the target for pirates, terrorists, and criminal activity. Cruising for Trouble exposes the acute vulnerability of cruise ships to piracy, terrorism, and crime, both on the high seas and in domestic and foreign ports-of-call. While cruise ships have ramped up in size and passenger capacity to become floating skyscrapers housing as many as 7,000 passengers, and while piracy incidents have increased since 2008 as the world economy has deteriorated, there has been no corresponding increase or enhancement in onboard security personnel, external tactical units, preventive screening, or coordinated response planning to guard against the growing threat of acts of piracy and internal and external terrorist attacks. Commander Gaouette reveals to cruise passengers the very real security dangers they unwittingly face when they saunter up the gangway of a cruise ship for a carefree holiday. He sounds a clarion call to national and transnational security agencies, maritime regulators, legislators, and customers to compel the cruise industry to strengthen and reform its security programs before catastrophe strikes. The author, a longtime cruise industry insider who now serves as a top maritime security official in the Department of Homeland Security, details the many security defects and vulnerabilities of cruise ships, identifies the remedies, and makes the case for their urgent implementation. Extensively documented and illustrated, Cruising for Trouble is a vividly told cautionary for the ten million Americans who taken cruise-ship vacations each year and the millions more who would like to. As well as modeling the potential threats to cruise ships from pirates and maritime terrorists—who mimic each other's methods, overlap each other's territories, and might well find it mutually beneficial to combine their forces and resources—Commander Gaoutte recounts many actual examples of cruise-ship insecurity that have been swept under the carpet or spun by the cruise industry: pirate attacks, fires, onboard crime, mass food poisonings and infections, and the mysterious disappearances of cruise-ship passengers.
Download or read book Man Overboard written by Joan Lownds and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man Overboard tells the inside story of one of America's most notorious murder cases in decades, providing unprecedented insight into the death of Greenwich native George Allen Smith IV on his honeymoon. He married Jennifer Hagel in June 2005. Both of them were young and beautiful. He came from an old-line Greenwich family; she, from blue-collar Cromwell and with a reputation for being a flirt. Just eight days after their wedding, their new life together disintegrated on their Royal Caribbean honeymoon cruise. The morning after several booze-fueled melees, a gruesome blood stain traced the awning below their cabin, and George had vanished. After four years of bitter legal wrangling with both families, Royal Caribbean recently handed over its files to the FBI, which announced that Smith's murder is “very active and open.” Man Overboard provides an extraordinary look into a case that has captured the public imagination and raised provocative questions about the unregulated cruise industry, leading directly to the historic Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act signed by President Obama.
Download or read book Passenger 23 written by Sebastian Fitzek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, on average 23 people disappear without a trace from cruise ships. No one has ever come back. Until now. Five years ago police psychologist Martin Schwartz lost his wife and son. They were holidaying on a cruise ship when they simply vanished, the case written off as a straightforward murder-suicide. They are not the only parent-and-child pair to have disappeared from the ship in recent years – and yet, the authorities seem unconcerned. But when a missing girl reappears – carrying Martin's son's beloved teddy bear – the police won't be able to avoid the truth that something sinister is lurking on board... 'Without question one of the crime world's most evocative storytellers' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists' HARLAN COBEN
Download or read book Cruise Ship Heist written by David Withington and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cruise Ship Heist (2nd Edition) is the prequel to stand-out six-strong Cruise Ship Crime Investigators (CSCI) series. Awarded 'Book of the Day' and a glowing official 5-star review by the American OnlineBookClub.org - Cruise Ship Heist is from author Stuart St Paul, stuntman turned Multi-Award-Winning Screenwriter and Movie Director. Adept at drawing in his audience as a result of the multitude of story-telling tricks learnt during his time as a director, St Paul delivers a humorous, action-packed, and tension laden narrative that leaves readers on the edge of their seat, and impossible to second guess. (this is the novel, the Teleplay is also available at Amazon) With Commander Kieron Phillips very much looking forward to holidaying on the ocean waves and the chance to catch up with his daughter, a dancer onboard the cruise ship he's just embarked, Stuart St Paul sets the scene for his action-packed thriller, Cruise Ship Heist. Realising all too quickly that there was nothing coincidental about him being on board this specific voyage, Commander Phillips brings into play the full arsenal of his military background, in order to return the MV Lady Diana to holiday mode. The crime thriller that has movie adaptation or binge-watch TV series written all over it. Cruise Ship Heist will appeal to more than the 31 million + yearly cruise passengers in the 8-billion-dollar industry. Awarded 'Book of the Day' and a glowing official 5-star review by the American OnlineBookClub.org. Multi-award-winning screenwriter and director Stuart St Paul delivers a crime drama set at sea that feels frighteningly real. From the official 5* review - ... The plot of the story was complex and had much depth to it; it presented this giant riddle with many unpredictable facets. The story carried intrigue right from when Commander Kieron Philips was introduced at the airport. His character gave off waves of mystery and intrigue with the peculiar situation in which he found himself... Kieron was the tangy combination of the good cop and the bad cop. He was the guy you wanted in your corner when things got ugly because he wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty. His character stood out because of his keen eye for foul play, bravery, and kindness. More so, the author gave a lot of insight into Kieron's thoughts and the complicated mental process of solving the mystery that lived on the cruise ship. Another impressive character was Hunter Witowski, the cruise ship's head of security. He had a dry humour that belied his tough exterior. He was one character I didn't expect to like, but he became one of my favourites. It was fun to see the wordplay between the characters. Cruise Ship Heist was action-packed, suffused with danger, murder, and unpredictability. This was one of those stories that would stay with you for a while, as it delivered mystery and intrigue. The book was fun to read; there was no dull moment, and the entire experience was a rollercoaster ride. I enjoyed every part of Cruise Ship Heist. It was professionally edited, and I disliked nothing in it. Therefore, I'd rate it five out of five stars. Cruise Ship Heist would be appreciated by lovers of mystery and thrillers. Full review by Bibliophile onlinebookclub.org Stuart St Paul won Best Director in the USA, a Silver Palm in Mexico, was nominated for a Star & Screen in Mumbai, and his movie Scarlet Tunic was selected in Cannes for official selection at both Cabourg and Verona.
Download or read book Cruise Ship Heist written by Laura Aikman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When retired Commander Kieron Philips finds a passenger sitting dead in his seat as everyone disembarks the plane, he calls the flight attendant and makes no fuss. He thinks nothing of it. He survived Ireland, Iraq and covert missions but now misses an unexpected bullet when a woman he spent just a few flirty moments with at baggage collection is arrested at customs in South America with millions of dollars. Within minutes he's sharing a taxi to a cruise ship with two other women and his life is about to change forever. Within hours they're at sea, and he's embroiled in a saga of which he has no knowledge. His cabin is searched by a stowaway gunman, who is intercepted and arrested by Senior Officer Hunter Witowski, head of security, who suspects Philips knows that there is more to all this. Philips starts to wonder if his being on this cruise, at this time, was an accident, or whether someone saw his military skills and put him in the right place at the right time. He can't trust anyone on the ship, and no crazy amount of money is worth either his life or the life of his show-dancer daughter whom he travelled this far to visit. Except she is not his daughter and she arranged the trip.
Download or read book Devils on the Deep Blue Sea written by Kristoffer A. Garin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this terrifically entertaining history, journalist Kristoffer A. Garin chronicles the cruise-ship industry, from its rise in the early sixties, to its explosion in the seventies with the hit show The Love Boat, to the current vicious consolidation wars and brazen tax dodges. Entrepreneurial genius and bare-knuckle capitalism mate with cultural kitsch as the cruise lines dodge U.S. tax, labor, and environmental laws to make unimaginable profits while bringing the world a new form of leisure. A colorful and compelling behind-the-scenes narrative, Devils on the Deep Blue Sea is a definitive look at the industry and its robber barons who created floating empires.
Download or read book Unsafe on the High Seas Your Guide to a Safer Cruise written by Charles R. Lipcon and published by I Adels Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Case of the Lady in the Luggage written by Cheri Baker and published by Adventurous Ink LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many Tappets does it take to solve a murder? When Ellie’s kids surprise her by coming aboard the S.V. Adventurous Spirit she couldn’t be more thrilled. She’s missed them so much, especially her sweet granddaughter Clara. And finally, it's time to introduce the family to the new man in her life. That is, if she can stop chickening out long enough to spill the beans. Meanwhile, Ellie's friend Violet is having a reunion of her own. Violet’s long-lost love has come aboard the ship on the arm of a new beau, and the resulting drama is raising eyebrows all over the ship. But emotional baggage takes second place to murder when a dead body is found on Violet’s ex's doorstep! Does her old flame harbor the heart of a killer? Ellie's on the hunt, but her prey proves elusive. Between the dead woman’s unusual past, an unorthodox murder weapon gone missing, and the involvement of a visiting magician and his parrot, this mystery is starting to feel like a three-ring circus! Make yourself some popcorn and settle in for the show, because Ellie Tappet, along with her family and friends, are about to perform some crime-solving magic of their own.
Download or read book Cruise Ship Tourism 2nd Edition written by Ross Dowling and published by CABI. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated and revised, Cruise Ship Tourism, 2nd Edition covers the economic, social and environmental impacts of cruising, combining the latest knowledge and research to provide a comprehensive account of the subject. Despite the industry growing rapidly, there is a substantial gap in the related literature, and this book addresses the key issues for researchers, students and industry professionals. A valuable 'one-stop-shop' for those interested in cruise ships and maritime tourism, this new edition from major names in the field is also an invaluable resource for anyone concerned more widely with tourism and business development.
Download or read book Cruise Ship Heist written by Stuart St Paul and published by Cruise Doris Visits. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commander Kieron Phillips is very much looking forward to holidaying on the ocean waves and the chance to catch up with his adapted Syrian daughter, a dancer onboard the cruise ship. However, he realises all too quickly that there was nothing coincidental about him being on board this specific voyage on this exact week, and he has no idea who to trust. From the official 5* bookclub review - Awarded 'Book of the Day' and a glowing official 5-star review by the American OnlineBookClub.org. Multi-award-winning screenwriter and movie director Stuart St Paul delivers a crime drama set at sea that feels frighteningly real. … The plot of the story was complex and had much depth to it; it presented this giant riddle with many unpredictable facets. The story carried intrigue right from when Commander Kieron Philips was introduced at the airport. His character gave off waves of mystery and intrigue with the peculiar situation in which he found himself… Kieron was the tangy combination of the good cop and the bad cop. He was the guy you wanted in your corner when things got ugly because he wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty. His character stood out because of his keen eye for foul play, bravery, and kindness. More so, the author gave a lot of insight into Kieron's thoughts and the complicated mental process of solving the mystery that lived on the cruise ship. Another impressive character was Hunter Witowski, the cruise ship's head of security. He had a dry humour that belied his tough exterior. He was one character I didn't expect to like, but he became one of my favourites. It was fun to see the wordplay between the characters. Cruise Ship Heist was action-packed, suffused with danger, murder, and unpredictability. This was one of those stories that would stay with you for a while, as it delivered mystery and intrigue. The book was fun to read; there was no dull moment, and the entire experience was a rollercoaster ride. I enjoyed every part of Cruise Ship Heist. It was professionally edited, and I disliked nothing in it. Therefore, I'd rate it five out of five stars. Cruise Ship Heist would be appreciated by lovers of mystery and thrillers. Full review by Bibliophile onlinebookclub.org Cruise Ship Heist - second edition. Stuart St Paul won Best Director in the USA, a Silver Palm in Mexico, was nominated for a Star & Screen in Mumbai, and his movie Scarlet Tunic was selected in Cannes for official selection at both Cabourg and Verona.
Download or read book The Murder of Mary Takahashi written by Rod Kackley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder on the MediterraneanA research vessel finds a woman's decomposing corpse floating in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about twenty miles off the Italian shoreline.Cruise ships frequent the area. Investigators' best guess is that she came from one of those boats. But which one? And is it a case of accidental death, suicide, or even murder?Only one boat reported the possibility that a passenger had gone overboard. So she had to have come from the Island Star.The mystery of how she died was also swiftly solved. For one simple reason, it had to be a case of homicide.So, someone murdered this woman while both were aboard the cruise ship. Hundreds of people were onboard the Island Star. Who was the killer?Another perplexing question: Why should the DA's office in Orange County, California, prosecute a murder that occurred off the coast of Italy?Prosecutors also have to deal with the fact that their star witnesses were thousands of miles away when Mary Takahashi went into the water.What complicated the prosecution's case even more, was the propensity of their star witnesses to change their stories. Both had reasons to turn on the suspect. Would the jury believe them?The Murder of Mary Takahashi: A Shocking True Crime Story tells a story of greed and murder. But it's also an extraordinary tale of legal intrigue and guile as prosecutors work for more than a decade to put one of their own, a fellow attorney, in prison for the rest of his life.
Download or read book Death Cruise written by Don Davis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For pretty Ohioan Joan Rogers and her two teenaged daughters, a Florida sunset cruise was a dream come true. And even though all three were desperately afaid of the water, they were so taken with friendly boat owner Oba Chandler that they gladly accepted a ride with him on beautiful Tampa Bay. Little did naive mom and two daughters know that behind Chandler's mask of a gracious host lurked a daring and ruthless ex-con, a thief and a liar, a seductive Don Juan who used and discarded wives and children. As they sun serenely sank below the Gulf of Mexico, Chandler suddenly shut down the engines, dropped anchor...and turned into a sadistic torturer. Hog-tying and brutally raping all three, Chandler tossed them overboard -- alive -- with 40-pound cement blocks tied to their necks. With cruel laughter, he spoke his last words to them: "Swim for it." But the dark green waters of Tampa Bay refused to hold his monstrous secret, and after only three days, the bodies of his victims surfaced. If it hadn't been for a dedicated team of detectives and the clues provided by Chandler's neighbors, a depraved killer might have gotten away with his ghastly crime. Instead, he now paces the floors of a Florida prision awaiting his rendezvous with the electric chair.
Download or read book Cruise Ship Serial Killer written by Stuart St Paul and published by Cruise Doris Visits. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before they can even set up the office of CSCI, Cruise Ship Crime Investigators, the two agents are called to a mid ocean ship where a spree-killing has started. Too far into the Pacific to turn back, nine days before seeing Polynesia, and the killing is nightly. With the murderer at large no port will allow them to dock even if they do arrive, and the ship will be running low on fuel and food.
