The Wreck of the Mary Deare. by Innes, Hammond - 1956.

New York:: Alfred A Knopf, 1956.. Book Club Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: gray boards with dark navy on the spine; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. A Story of the Sea. The Mary Deare was a floating deathtrap of rattling rivets and clanging plates, a piece of leaking ironmongery taken off the junk heap of the China Seas. A 60,000 ton freighter, a survivor of two world wars -- she was the ship that rounded Ushant on March 18, battered and exhausted by a Biscay gale, and sailed into the Channel, apparently unmanned! John Sands saw the Mary Deare briefly that night from the deck of his sailing vessel, the Sea Witch. He saw her again the following morning, abandoned and drifting close to a reef. And in boarding her to satisfy his curiosity, he became involved in the mystery of the Mary Deare. Conspiracy, theft, murder -- crimes contrived with the guilt laid on a blameless man. This was the basis for the 1959 film starring Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston and Michael Redgrave (the screenplay for the film was by Eric Ambler, another noted author in this genre).