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Hang on a Second!

By: Francis Kerr Young

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A double murder occurs aboard TSTS Queen of Dalriada and the main suspect supposedly commits suicide. A young engineer on his first sea voyage can identity the murderer. Two detectives from Scotland Yard board the ship in New York and pursue their inquiries on three Bahamian cruises. The murderer roams the ship at will - first as a passenger - and later as a stowaway. The engineer is a magnet for older women, including a female policewoman who falls for him after he accidentally becomes naked during an interview. In another scene a ship's nurse, whose best before date has long since past, leads him astray. A Canadian shows him the ropes but he is handicapped with a thick Scottish brogue, making it difficult for him to be understood. He, in turn, must adapt to various English dialects. Sex, ribald humour, horror, and tragedy keeps readers interested in this tale of yesteryear. RMS Queen Mary's original interior is a backdrop to this hilarious novel about life below decks on an old passenger liner.

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1411657268

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9781411657267

Hang on a Second! Hardback

By: Francis Kerr Young

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Hang on a Second! Hardback

By: Francis Kerr Young

Hijinks on the high seas. The year is 1961 and a double murder occurs aboard an old passenger liner. The only one who can identify the murderer is a young Scottish marine engineer on his very first voyage. Two Scotland Yard detectives board the vessel in the Port of New York and the ship sails for the Bahamas. The murderer roams the ship at will, first as a passenger and later as a stowaway. Older women show a penchant for this young fellow and his erotic adventures carry the story along. This novel is a must-read for folk that lived through that distant era.

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0981344720

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9780981344720

Cruise Ship

By: Francis Kerr Young

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Cruise Ship

By: Francis Kerr Young

Atlantic passenger liner, RMS Queen of Dalriada, embarks on a short cruise out of Southampton to Lisbon, Las Palmas on Gran Canaria, and Funchal, Madeira. The voyage goes well, if one can discount a bomb threat and a hit man stalking his victim, until the vessel departs from Funchal when an entity from Earth's distant past imbues a young Scottish engineer's mind. The consciousness of this Sasquatch or Bigfoot is displeased by the way Man has mismanaged our world. But our globe's environment in January 1962 is too cold for the creature to set things to right - both with nature and the human race. Sixty years must pass before it will rise like a phoenix out of Saline Bay in the Bailiwick of Guernsey when a former engineroom rating recalls certain happenings on that ill-fated voyage. This novel, a sequel to Hang on a Second!, gives the reader an insight to life aboard merchant ships during the early sixties. Ribald humour, romance, murder, and excitement carry this story along to its conclusion

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0981344704

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9780981344706

The Legend of the Mary Celeste and Other Poems

By: Francis Kerr Young

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The Legend of the Mary Celeste and Other Poems

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The Legend of the Mary Celeste is a 4500-word poem about this ill-starred ship and the horrible events that caused her to be discoveredadrift and abandoned near the Azores in November 1872. The anthology of poems is in seven sections: A Medley of Sonnets on various subjects; Poems of West Virginia, Seafarers of the 20th Century, includes a voyage aboard the RMS Queen Mary; Whaâs like us? Humorous views and flashbacks of an exile Scot; Ballades and Villanelles, modern versions of 14th-century poems, and finally Recollections, works that reflect life, human nature, Mother Nature, humour, sadness, grief, war, and current events.

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1411655206

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9781411655201

Round About Christmas and Other Roundabout Stories

By: Francis Young, Kerr

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Round About Christmas and Other Roundabout Stories

By: Francis Young, Kerr

Round About Christmas - a tale aboard a Canadian corvette in December 1940 Without Malus - how an illiterate man became a millionaire in Hamilton, Ontario, Look At It This Way - dyslexia becomes the nemesis for a drug pusher in Labrador City It's how you say it! - a speech impediment can be deadly Before Your Very Eyes! - a customs officer is hoodwinked by a beautiful smuggler Pearlie - the biography of a brave Scottish patriot Malus In Wonderland - a curious tale in Hamilton, Ontario The Educated Ball! - a Canadian golf pro finds himself playing against a Scottish rogue with a remote controlled golf ball Oops! - an oblique look at teleporting in Vienna, Austria The Hangman - strange sense of justice in this tale of the Old West The Ghost - A happening in Hamilton, Ontario

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1430301716

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Book's by Francis Kerr Young

Hang on a Second!

Hang on a Second!

Hang on a Second! Hardback

Hang on a Second! Hardback

Cruise Ship

Cruise Ship

The Legend of the Mary Celeste and Other Poems

The Legend of the Mary Celeste and Other Poems

Round About Christmas and Other Roundabout Stories

Round About Christmas and Other Roundabout Stories

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