S.S. SAN PEDROJames Gould Cozzens Harcourt, Brace ($1.50).
On Friday morning, June 7, the 17,000-ton turbine liner San Pedro lay at her Hoboken pier. Within her steel fatness lay a million dollars in gold for the Argentine, automobiles for Montevideo, shirts, toys, plows and a consignment of machine guns for Paraguay. She also carried passengers and crew to the number of 400 souls. One of the last to leave the ship before she sailed was a horrid looking man with a skinless skull and grey cotton gloves, Captain Clendening's physician. He was the one...
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