Mariner's Curse (Hardcover, Turtleback School & Library ed.)

Twelve-year-old bespectacled Rory has always loved to read about sailors and the ocean. So although his first time aboard a boat is in the company of his mother and her new husband, and the boat in question is a big luxury cruise ship, he is thrilled to be at sea.His pleasure soon evaporates when he meets the mysterious Mr. Morgan. There is something sinister about the old man, so old that he might even have been a passenger on the Titanic. John Lunn's debut novel is a fast-paced thriller about an unlikely ghost and his legacy of cowardice and evil.