When Max, fleeing from England and leaving dangerous affairs, finds a ride from an old fellow Navy officer, now the captain of the largest and most luxurious cruise liner in the world, about to set sail to cross the ocean headed to New York, he can't imagine that after a few hours the body of an old woman will be found onboard mysteriously killed with an arrow stuck in her neck. Max cannot afford to go back to England and the only way to get to New York is to convince his old friend to continue the crossing and together solve the murder.