
In 1634, detective Samuel Pipps is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may or may not have committed. His bodyguard is determined to prove his innocence, but once at sea, mysterious devilry plagues the voyage and three passengers are marked for death, forcing the bodyguard to solve a mystery connecting all passengers before the ship sinks.
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