The Mask On The Cruise Ship

Against the backdrop of a cruise ship and Alaska landmarks, twelve-year-old Dinah Galloway is on the trail of a stolen native artifact.

Dinah Galloway--budding diva, enthusiastic gourmand and amateur detective--is back. This time she has taken to the high seas with a gig in the lounge of an Alaska-bound cruise ship. Also aboard are her mother and her older sister Madge, a moody professor of First Nations art, an elderly woman with romantic intentions toward an even older man, an aspiring thief with gooseberry-colored eyes, and a priceless Native mask that seems to be attracting far too much attention. Also on the ship is Talbot St. John, class heartthrob, with whom Dinah has a running feud. The mask is on its way to a museum to be returned to its ancestral home, but is stolen moments before its delivery. When Dinah is pushed into a glacial lake, the mystery becomes more dangerous and the pool of suspects deepens. As Dinah entertains the passengers and eats her way up the Northwest Coast, a number of potential suspects emerge. Fresh from her best-selling adventures in the world of theater in The Man in the Moonstone, Dinah Galloway continues her hilarious adventures and determined sleuthing in The Mask on the Cruise Ship.

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