The coroner’s report reveals that the body contained a large dose of laudanum – large enough to kill him. Two days later the ill-fated ship sinks taking with it the crime scene, witnesses and possibly the murderer.
All they have is a post-mortem photograph of the man, cufflinks with the initials TB, and the Titanic badge they found in his pocket.
Inspector Lorcan O’Dowd finds that not everyone who boarded in Southampton or Cherbourg planned on going to New York. The White Star Line office supplies him with a list of seven passengers who disembarked at Cobh, in County Cork. The inspector finds one of the passengers, Fr. Brown staying at Bishops passage in Cloynes. The five members of the Odell family live in London.
And then there’s the seventh passenger, Amelia Nelson, also with an address in London but no one seems to remember what Amelia looked like or anything about her.
