The floating admiral

Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector´s investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim´s niece has disappeared -even the identity of the victim is called into doubt. Inspector Rudge begins to wonder if there isn´t more to this case than meets the eye...