Murder travels first class... In 1907, the magnificent LUSITANIA, hoping to capture the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing from Liverpool to New York, attracts both the beautiful and the damned for its maiden voyage. Among its privileged passengers strolls debonaire American George Porter Dillman, a shipbuilder's son - and a detective secretly hired to find the con artists, gigolos and thieves who prey on the rich and unwary. When a shocking murder takes Dillman by surprise, he plunges into a drama of love and intrigue set in the glittering salons of this floating palace - and perhaps plays right into a killer's hands...